WB: Mark Levin

Lawyer, writer and radio talk show host Mark Levin said many politicians invoke Reagan but govern like Nelson Rockefeller.

Levin said conservatives really need to get engaged and take back the Republican Party. He said we're in the midst of a quiet civil war for the heart and soul of the nation. He asked if we were going to defend traditional values or accept as inevitable the expansion of government.

Levin said, "The liberal, or the statist to be more accurate, promotes reliance on the state rather than responsibility to your family...they promote multiculturalism...rather than the American culture."

Levin pointed out that the Founders set up a republic rather than the anarchy of a direct democracy. They established an intricate system of checks and balances. Apart from what powers the Constitution conferred on the federal government, it had no powers. He pointed to the amendment process as the correct way to implement any necessary changes to the Constitution, not judges.

On the Bill of Rights: "Federal government was not to intervene ever in the right to religious expression, press, gun ownership and assembly. And we conservatives support all ten...just like we support all Ten Commandments."

"The Constitution serves as an obstacle to their [liberals] agenda, which is why they refer to it as a "living Constitution. To change it's meaning is to destroy the Constitution."

Liberals have created a fourth branch of government: the Administrative Branch. It cannot be influenced at the ballot box. This rules supreme over the rest of the federal government, over the states, and anything else it wants to rule over.

He said we can't reverse all this overnight, but we must begin to educate our fellow Americans about their heritage and our history.

Levin pointed to the differences between liberals and conservatives, such as: they stand for union bosses while we stand for the worker, we stand for the children while they stand for the abortion clinic.

Levin said under socialized medicine, government controls who gets treated and who doesn't, who lives and who dies.

Levin said he calls Hillary Clinton "Her Highness." This because of her love for taxation and powerful government. He reminded the crowd that Hillary recently said she has a million ideas, just no way to pay for them all; Levin said she'd certainly try to find a way.

Levin spoke of stunted, ineffectual responses by liberals to military threats in the past. Of the Clintons and other liberals, Levin said, "We cannot allow these people to run our armed forces.

Levin said he couldn't support a third party candidate under the current circumstances, to which he received some applause. He said we handed the government to the Clintons once, and we can't do that again.

He said the Republican Party has been suffering from neglect since Reagan left office, and it was up to people like us to do something about that.