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With the calendar. this was a 65 states that were delegated as having this pattern. therefore we need a new map. congress took until now to have the new map. you're doing what the court asked of them to do, and while we are haggling over whether we do it, i remember when i was a kid in elementary school, exactly what you said, the 65 voting rights passed. one of the advocates was a republican from illinois. edward dirkson, i just remember his name because he became an outstanding part of that history. where is he in the republican party today? where is the everett dirkson as a democrat from we...

This program about his trip to selma. i credited him for going to selma. it's great he went there as a symbolic event. but until these republicans come along with renewing the voting rights act, until they do that, then unfortunately, they will risk looking like this symbolism alone. >> and remember, that was a bipartisan effort. edward dirkson, arch conservative, former mccarthyite from illinois, put through that voting right, the civil rights after 1964, really rewrote it in the senate. and so it is possible, you know, there was a time when democrats and republicans could do what was morally...

Our nominees, you don't impose them on us we pick them here, you guys for eight years or more than that under bush destroyed the republican party 2006. we lost both houses. you nominated somebody that got less of the vote in california than barry goldwater. now, thank you, we will pick our own leaders. and i think it is an excellent message to send. >> by the way that is the speech that edward dirkson gave. >> twice you have taken us down the road to defeat. we shall not follow you again. >> frightening. that was 1952. chuck, here is karl rove. i want chuck to jump in here, karl rove and sean ...

Our nominees, you don't impose them on us we pick them here, you guys for eight years or more than that under bush destroyed the republican party 2006. we lost both houses. you nominated somebody that got less of the vote in california than barry goldwater. now, thank you, we will pick our own leaders. and i think it is an excellent message to send. >> by the way that is the speech that edward dirkson gave. >> twice you have taken us down the road to defeat. we shall not follow you again. >> frightening. that was 1952. chuck, here is karl rove. i want chuck to jump in here, karl rove and sean ...

People at the grassroots said to the republican national establishment, you don't pick our nominees, you don't impose them on us we pick them here, you guys eight years or more than that under bush destroyed the republican party 2006. we lost both houses. you nominated somebody sthab got less of the vote in california than barry goldwater. now, thank you, we will pick our own leaders. and i think it is an excellent message to send. >> by the way that is the speech that edward dirkson gave. >> twice you have taken us down the road to -- >> frightening. that was 1952. chuck, here is karl rove. i...