caller: sarah palin all the way. what happened with the republican party this last eight years is president bush was a social conservative, but we need a fiscal conservative in the white house. host: sarah palin on the fox news channel last night with strong hannity -- sean hannity. here's what the two talked about with regard to the rhetoric in american politics today. >> we are hearing a lot of good rhetoric. but we are not seeing those actions. this many months into the new administration -- quite disappointed, quite frustrated with not seen those actions to rein in spending and slow down the growth of government. instead, it is the complete opposite. it is expanding at such a large degree. unfortunately, our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize. that is so far from what the founders of our country had in mind for us. that is where we're headed. you have to be blunt about the candidate and honest with the americans to let them know. if we keep going down these roads, nationalizing many

whether you like sarah palin or not and i understand there are some people who think she's great and some people who aren't too hot of her, whether you like her are not there is nothing that she did and that deserved the viciousness with which she was attacked. i want to give some examples -- a female professor at the university of chicago wrote on the washington post website that's their opinions greatest hypocrisy is her pretense that she is a woman. you see, just as liberals, not all but many believe the liberals, just as they don't see black conservatives as black people at all but simply as conservatives, they don't see women conservatives as women. they didn't see sarah pillar and as a woman, i saw her only as a conservative, at least that writer did. in other professor from the university of michigan running peace force on which is the liberal online magazine, very influential in some liberal circles. the writer asked, was the difference between it palin and a moslem fundamentalist? lipstick. be all that the job, except if you think about that muslim fundamentalists to bury ba

sarah palin, of quebec? i'm so worried about my country, i'm sorry about it -- but i love the response that was well, i love glen back's mind, but i'm worried about. host: today is flag day which was first observed in 1877 on the 100th anniversary of the continental congress' adoption of the stars and stripes as our official national flag. all public buildings should fly the flag on july 14 and the idea quickly caught on in many wanted to participate in the waving of the flood. one early supporter was bj, a schoolteacher who wanted june 14 to be known as the day. in 1916 president woodrow wilson proclaimed it as a national celebration, however, the holiday was not officially recognized until 1949 when harry truman signed the national flag day bill. back to the phones. we have one more from miami, on our republican line. caller: i have a comment about the connecting the dots, and you made earlier from the miami herald. you said that long time homers

a good example of this is the treatment that sarah palin got. now, the mainstream media took a lot of hits for the unfair coverage of sarah palin and all of that. the fact of the matter is, we did not broadcast one word about these rumors that were circulating that were all over the internet about sarah palin until the mccain campaign put out a written press statement that said you know, that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant and so on and so forth. obviously when a campaign makes a statement he put out something like it. but, it was all over the place. everybody knew about it. weech readed that information just like we would when somebody would call cbs and say here is a new step. we never did any of that. we never put any of that on the air but a lot of people took a big whack at the media for saying, we put that on. we didn't but that is what we are all dealing with. politicians don't know how to deal with that. we are dealing with it as best we can but it has really changed the way campaigns are now. >> it is that collective word media,

david letterman -- every -- the you hear about sarah palin is about her daughter's or a fight with david letterman or she is on some websites attacking someone else. she is not going to rise to international leadership that way. some governors -- >> it is okay to have a sigh of relief. [laughter] not that i have any political prejudice. >> if the republican primaries were held 6 months from now, my guess is mitt romney would win. >> then you have the genius of barack obama in appointing the governor of utah to be ambassador to china and thus removing one of his, perhaps, main rivals. >> someone from the west who was calling for a different kind of republican party. john mccue, secretary of the army, jim leach, republican congressman from iowa, national endowment for the -- congressman from illinois, secretary of transportation, this is from the same thing i am thinking of. our friend rahm emanuel -- >> mid ronny running the campaign around the country, the same candidates to learn, this was his pride and joy, finding the right person to unseat the wrong person. [talking over each other]

caller: take chris matthews, he hammers sarah palin and leslie, day after day. you know why? because they are afraid of this conservative woman. another thing, this david letterman comment about sarah palin is the daughter be knocked up a ball game. if it had been obama's daughter he would have been fired the next day. i guarantee you that letterman would have been out there the following day. host: here is another message from twitter about the media. the supreme court watch this week, we take the final release coming out this week. the washington post has this photo of a judge sotomayor meeting with senators. the headline says that most americans want her on the court. the poll indicates that 62% think that the federal judge should be confirmed by the senate. this is an abc news poll in conjunction with "the washington post." in the philadelphia paper, sotomayor role feels interest in a court battle. it concerns the new haven connecticut firefighters. it says that new haven through out a set of it 2003 promotion exams because not enough minority candidates qualify. a group

one thing i noticed with sarah palin being talked about marginalized basis. i believe that happened to sarah in this election. they doubted her education. they doubted her background. when, in fact, she was a very accomplished young woman that i thought for the first time in a long time got me excited about the presidential election. and i felt like what do you have to say how she was treated by the media and what happened to her on a personal level by putting herself out there in a national race? >> you know, and i appreciate so very much the fact that we had governor sarah palin on the national ticket. i just appreciate her value system and what she stands for. and the fact that she was willing to put herself out there. you know, you can get upset about it or you can realize it's there. that the media has a bias. and i have always just accepted the fact that it was there. and determined that i was not going to leave the playing field. that i was going to be a trailblazer and help to change it. what an important lesson for all of us is that you have the abil

women like sarah palin, who was attacked and ridiculed mercilessly often for the very fact that she's a woman. how often did leftist criticize her for working while she had small children. can you believe it? they actually stood up there after years of saying women should be able to do whatever they want, they criticized her for making the decision to have a career or for her daughter's pregnancy. these are feminists out there criticizing her or worse the most galling criticism of all was the criticism that she decided to have her youngest son despite the fact that she knew he would be born with down syndrome. did they cite as the governor of alaska where she cut the budget increases under the previous administration. i didn't hear any of them talk about her or her diplomatic skills when she was able to forge this bipartisan agreement when it come to the pipeline in alaska. none of that. i didn't see a single feminist come out defending her or praising her for her accomplishments or saying what a great day it was when the republican party nominated a woman to be vice president. instea

but then you also have to set aside the absolute fascination for sarah palin because for the initial week or two of her rollout, she was a superstar and in candidates obama made jokes about fact she was getting more magazine coverage than he was. there were, let me scale this back a little bit and say when you are winning things generally the coverage gets a lot better. you know, it's true in sports and politics. obama won more than he lost but when he was losing that coverage was bad and painful and negative and the negative period lasted a very, very long time. >> host: the speech in philadelphia on march 18th as a result of the reverend jeremiah wright, what led durham giving that address? >> guest: he always wanted a grace speech, this is something he thought about a lot and he knew what he wanted to say. his campaign advisers never thought it was the right time. they didn't want him to touch, but when jeremiah wright can along with his sermons, which shouldn't have been an expected, when that came that was his moment and by the way the reason they shouldn't have been unexpected

another movement and the command convention, sarah palin speech, we were going to solve all our energy problems by drilling on the continental shelf. one of the speakers mentioned that and suddenly, the entire audience in the convention hall breaks into a chance, drill, baby drill. i know americans had no idea what that was about. it is only because i was born in 1969 -- i know that supposedly or if it did happen, when writers rioted. they yelled burn, burn -- baby burn. a symbol of insurgency out of control. they were claiming this kind of insurgency for themselves in the form of calling for more offshore drilling for mobil and exxon. it speaks to one of the themes in my book, that the conservatives have enormous capital from the social struggles of the '60s. americans have reasonable doubts about what those struggles meant. that might have made sense in 1970. these gestures all have a half life. every year, half of their efficacy passes away. they are not speaking american. once the nomination happen, and john mccain got it, republicans like to say the only win elections by being con

they are really losing their touch, and then another movement, and i think it might have been sarah palin's speech, remember the panacea, we were going to save all -- solve all our problems by drilling. it was if it was scripted. the whole audience in the convention hall breaks into a chant, "drill, baby, drill, drill, baby, drill," and i know americans had no idea what that was about, because it is only because -- and i was born in 1969. it is only because i am a student of the 1960's that i know that when rioters rioted in the 1960's, the yells, "burn, baby, burn, burn, baby, burn to -- they yelled that. -- burn, baby, burn." insurgency for themselves in the form of calling for more offshore drilling for mobil and exxon. it speaks to one of the themes in my book, that the conservatives have enormous capital from the social struggles of the '60s. americans have reasonable doubts about what those struggles meant. that might have made sense in 1970. these gestures all have a half life. every year, half of their efficacy passes away. they are not speaking american. once the nomination happen,

palin had a witch and we drill, baby, drill, the whole of alaska, maybe we get 18 months more of oil for our reserves. so i think it wasn't just the -- at least one hopes it wasn't just the five dollar a gallon gas crisis of last summer and autumn which made americans wean them off suvs and seal the doom of some redundant departments of detroit and michigan, but the sort of general, it's up to the educator in chief in the white house, he has certainly been out there doing, just yesterday in fact actually in laying down tougher rules about emission. it's necessary to educate the public that really that our economic future in some sense depends how much short-term pain -- and there will be an awful lot of pain especially in the collapse of the automobile industry in transitioning to a greener future for us all. we have no choice. i mean, it's extraordinarily ironic -- doesn't quite answer your question. i was in shanghai and you would think the chinese would be in gloat mode really. our creditor, once our debtor, saying turn in your bonds, the bottom falls out of what is left of the am

palin. now he has become the second gop hopeful in the week to do a swan dive off the adultery cliff. if they do not drop it, pretty soon the youngest contender will be 75. can this joins us from riverdale, maryland, on the independent line. caller: good morning, mr. sculley. i believe that public officials private lives should be just that, private. however, when you have politicians like mr. sanford and senator bentsensign, who were so vehement in public against senator clinton -- against president clinton and his problems, there is something very hypocritical about their actions in the public stance that they took. you take this type of positions and it comes back to blow up in your face, then you are fodder for comedians, you are fodder for the public, and you are fodder and you deserve the criticism and the comments that you get. people are looking for politicians to be true blue, not hypocritical. what the walk, talk the talk, and these two individuals have fallen short. host: thank yo

sarah palin was told saturday night should not be allowed to redress the thousands there after all. the event begins tonight at 7:30 p.m. eastern. finally, former first lady laura bush says she is pleased that president barack obama nominated a woman for the supreme court, saying it judge sonya soda sounds like a winner and a good nominee. she made the remarks in an interview broadcast earlier on " good morning america." "washington journal" continues. host: healthcare is the issue for the next 25 minutes or so. what should the administration's plan look like? from the u.s. news section in this morning's "the wall street journal," this piece about a link senator kennedy. in the newspaper, if the liberal mr. kennedy takes a lesser role that could make it easier for the more conservative mr. baucus, the senator from montana to push the health care legislation into a centrist direction. mr. kennedy is a major proponent of including a publicly run health insurance option. his committee last week began circulating the first draft of the proposal for sweeping changes, starting the maneuve

palin operate what the bundled payment rates will be, but also realistically, for years, i suspect, our efforts to pursue broader units of payments are going to be blends of fee for service with the broader payment unit, rather than going cold turkey and eliminating fee for service. so some of the early experience using broad every payment units, sometimes puts providers if a bind. because the incentives to reduce the cost per episode may involve disproportionate reduction of the most profitable services and that really undermines provider's interest or ability to pursue these changes. so there are initial steps being discussed by congress now as part of health reef form, such as incentives to reduce hospital readmissions, bund i willing post-acute care into the inpatient drg's, post acute care would be care in nursing homes, home care, rehabilitation facilities. and using a supplemental capitation payment for medical home services. you know, the medical home idea is really a payment reform of, in addition to recognizing that many of the services that we believe today constitutes go

[laughter] >> the past year has driven the press crazy because hillary clinton, sarah palin, michelle obama. do you think of tear should have done more to defend her during the harry bridges raucus? i was always disappointed he let her get beaten up. >> that is true. there is no question that he did let her be used as a punching bag. he deflected the things we consider the new deal, that fdr did it. he let her be the one that got criticized for it and then he would sort of hold back during the satel strikes that were so controversial. you would see him and his press conferences when reporters when asked, wasn't he going to drag those workers out of there? he would say what and you asked ms. perkins about it? so, she did play the role for him. but, they both understood the importance of the world that she play. she kept trying to resign after the late 1930's. she tried to resign every year. he would never let her resign and once when she said, she boxed up her stuff, she was going to give up for lease, and was about to leave the seat. he put his arms around her and said and reached up

sarah palin again is an excellent example of that. she was a busy wife and mother, pta mother, co-owner of a small business. it wasn't like she was sitting around twiddling her thumbs just wanting some attention. she realized some things weren't working in her local government so she decided nobody else is going to do it. she stepped up to take responsibility to make her community a better place for her family. to her, there's no point in being involved if she weren't going for it with her whole heart, her whole being standing firmly upon what she believed everyday. the demand for conservative women speakers on college campuses and for the programs of clare boothe luce have only confirmed that there is a need and a demand for leadership training opportunities for women. i know because of the efforts of clare boothe luce that conservative women will play a significant role in shaping our movement in the future. now, at every event at which i speak, young women come up to me afterwards and they ask, how i got involved in the conservativ

[cheers and applause] >> i came in with sarah and todd. we came to the bottom of the steps over here. john mccain was there very gracious,ly welcoming us. i have to tell you. despite every effort of the elite media to prop up joe biden and pretend he actually knows what he's doing, i felt looking at john mccain and sarah pail lynn this country would have been amazingly better off had they been in the white house. [cheers and applause] >> i also want to say that i think on behalf of both campaign committees that john voice has given you your battle cry for the next year and a half. and i say this having once with haley barber and bob doll crisscrossed the country when we've been out of power for 40 years and people thought we were absolutely out of our minds to suggest we could actually win a majority. i think the phrase "do not tell me it can't be done" is about as good a way to start thinking about 2010 and 2012 as you could imagine. [applause] >> and i think our goal should be to reach out to the american people in every possible way, to