>> if you're willing to work hard and sacrificed and go the extra mile, and exercise the spirit of entrepreneurship and make those greater sacrifices and take the blows and take the hits and had several failed

businesses before your business model finally succeeds, you will leave your children and your grandchildren a better future. and in a socialist model, there simply doesn't allow for that room, for the profit margin win more than half of it is going to pay for taxes and, what other called, social fees? euphemism for more taxes. there's not enough profit margin. we have to remember the principles on which this country was founded and we have to remember that not too long ago democrats supported this as well. so going into 2012, we have to have i believe a radical ideological real awakening of these principles that made our country great, and can still make our country great. i don't think it's too late, but it will take a lot of work and it will take a unifying, a

unified party is what can make sure that barack obama truly is a one-term president. and i could go on, you know? [applause] i have a whole chapter that i call our follower in chief, where i lay out meaning of what i think are barack obama's flaws, that you guys probably have some questions about 2012, so i will save it for that. >> okay, he got a question please line up behind the mic -- if you've got a question, please line up behind the mic. >> who do you think will be our candidate? >> you know, i honestly don't know. i think it's early but i will say this speedy who would you just? >> you know, it's really hard to say. and i, people get frustrated when i say that but i think all

of them have really great characteristics. and i think it's a real testimony to the dialogue that the tea party has brought to the table, the mere fact that a balanced budget amendment was even part of the discussion before raising the debt ceiling. and again, let's look to that whole debt ceiling discussion as an example. if instead we have a said -- instead of pointing things at each other and said they are to blame, they are to blame, we have pointed fingers at barack obama and said what is wrong with the balanced budget amendment? what is wrong with putting and safety measures to make sure we never get into situations again? and we have spoken in one accord putting the blame where it belongs, i think that we would've been much more successful. but instead we've got to get over that finger-pointing. but the mere fact that that was

even part of the discussion, and the mere fact that we have true champions of the constitutional principles, not just people who are saying it just to win the nomination. we have true champions who i believe are going to fight for our country and for our party. and we've got a winning message and we've got to be confident of our message. we should be proud of our message. if we can adopt that attitude going into 2012, you know, we can do great things. >> hi. you touched a little bit on your troubles after your primary when and the difficulty with the parties establishment. what is your relationship like now with the delaware republican party and the rnc, and what are your plans politically? >> they are great questions. now, first of all i do want to

clarify that my trouble is with the former republican leadersh leadership. there has been a growing discontent in delaware with the political establishment that has come on both sides of the aisle, that is pretty much shut out the people, the voters. so my candidacy didn't create the discontent. we tap into it. and 10 because of the dirty underhanded tricks that the republican, the former delaware republican leadership did, those leaders were ousted. and the new chairman of the republican party understands that we need to unite. and he's been doing, john, the former president of the nra, he's been doing a great job of reaching out and trying to build a unity so that we can take back our state house and that we can be a strong unified force. and to help, you know, the former republican leadership take pride in the principles in which we stand, but, you know,

the ousted leadership is still unhappy and they are still resorting to some underhanded tricks because i talk about how one of the things that are former chairman, tom ross, did was file a false claim against the with the fec. and not only did our delaware republican leadership to this, but the democrats did it as well. they filed a false claim with the u.s. attorney's office. now, i have since been cleared of all of those claims, but why i say it's a sleazy underhanded trick is because it's abusing the political process, filing a false claim with u.s. attorney's office for political motives is appeasing the justice system. none of you in this room who has a vendetta against your neighbor can't accuse them of burglary and get the police to look into

that without facing consequences when they realized that it was, you know, a vindictive claim, that you did it can take to fully. but that's what our former chairman did. and the fec sal right through it. there was no merit to the claim. so they're trying to fight back right now and try to say that, that some things are in actor in the boat. and i would just say, you know, these are the same people who lost their post because of their dishonest tactics. so dishonesty and trickery is not off the table for them, but thankfully we have a new leadership, new people involved in the party who are, you know, mending those bridges. and as far as the rnc, chairman steele was great. he called me today after the primary. he personally came to delaware, and i talk about that in the book. so i hope at least with the rnc

we still have that good relationship. and like i said earlier on fox, you know, and on cnn, i extend the olive branch to karl rove and i said let's kiss and makeup, so hopefully we will and hopefully we can all get behind whoever it is that wins the republican nomination, and make sure we're talking about the issues at hand and make sure we're holding barack obama accountable. >> fortunately this afternoon i had the pleasure to hear you on the radio as i was driving and. and i thought it was a great deal on your part to say what you did. to karl rove, by way of the radio station. my question is, you alluded and you've been talking about it, just others across the board in all the political parties, you were obvious he a victim thereof and i think one of our other major candidates previously has been and she still lives. would you run for office again?

and if so, in what capacity and for what position? >> okay, that's a good question and i think that was a third part of your question that i forgot to answer. in the book i talk about the decision-making process when i ran for office in previous times, and i can honesty say i need as a public oh, my gosh, i can honestly say i don't know. and the reason for that is right now my focus at hand is, we are filing counter complaints against crewe. i started christine packed so we can fight because crewe is the same organization that went after sarah palin. they went after current world that they went after so many good candidates and my lawyer in the case also represented many of the other victims. and as you would explain, it's an exhausting process. the fbi called by childhood friends, you know? all because of this, this, this,

i had to say allegedly for legal reasons, this allegedly perjured affidavit. you know, that crew file, again that the u.s. attorney's office sal right through it and dismissed. but usually what happens is these candidates, obvious safety lose the election because crew will file this complaint and then release a press release all in the same day so as you're getting closer to election day the headlines read, you know, candidate is accused of this illegal activity. you know, all of my attorneys clients including me have been dismissed of these. but what happens is you are so emotionally attacked, you are so financially tapped that you are just glad you survived. well, i didn't earn that title troublemaker, you know, or i did earn that title troublemaker for a reason. and they picked on the wrong person. and we are fighting back and we

are filing our own series of counter complaints with the u.s. attorney's office, with our state attorney general, and with the irs. now, our state attorney general is beau biden. yes, there is relation to our vice president of sun. and we will see if i get a fair shot. i'm sure he will want to give this case all of the property but it deserves. but we are also asking the irs to revoke their tax status, to revoke tragedies tax status because they are a 501(c) organization. when george soros donates his millions to crew, it's a tax write off. if he and warren buffett want to write more checks to the government, great, but he gets to write off his check to crew. when you are a one see three organization as you probably very well know, you cannot

engage in direct political activity. you can educate the voters about issues, but you cannot actively campaigned. and if you look at crew's top 12 worse reelects, of those 12 of 2010, they say the most horrible candidates who won reelection, eight of those 12 are republican, and of those four who are democrats, three of them are african-american. so there's a very clear agenda here. and in the very beginning of crew's existence they didn't go after democrats at all. and so people started pointing the finger at this, this obvious partisanship, this obvious political motive and then they started taking on the black caucus. and usually not with the fanfare that they go after, people like me or sarah palin or others. so they are obviously politically motivated.

and melanie sloan was guilty of slander in so many ways, allegedly guilty of slander in so many ways. and we are fighting back. so that is on, you know, the top of my priority list right now because when candidates or political opponents do not have a platform to stand on, don't have a record they can defend, which, you know, even the democrats are beginning to say about the obama administration, they don't have a record they can defend. they resort to the politics of personal destruction. so if we don't fight back now and stop this corrupt behavior from crew, going into the 2012 election they will continue to do that. so again, you can't accuse your neighbor of burglary because you might face some charges of your own for abusing the justice system. crew cannot do what they did. in terms of running for office

again, like i said, i honestly don't know. it depends on, you know, if we have a congress full of allen west and jim demint's, i can enjoy civilian life, and that sounds very appealing. but again, i wrote the book because we need more allen west, we need more jim demint, we need more michele bachmann and sarah palin. and maybe some of you right here in this room. but as an outsider looking onto my race, when people watch what happened realize that things that you said 25 years ago are going to be dug up and taken out of context, you go why the heck would ever do that? why would i put my family through that? why would i embarrass myself our risk my reputation like that? and if we allow them to do that we are allowing them to win all over again. because we need more troublemakers to challenge the status quo, to hold this administration accountable to put their name on the line.

and again, we might not win the first time around, but we are making a difference. and we are paving the way and moving the standard further along for future candidates, especially, especially for women. so i really tip my hat to what your organization is doing here in such a difficult district. [applause] >> thank you. >> a. i was wondering if you'd be willing to talk a little bit about your experience with the media during your campaign. was there anything that surprised you or shock to you in the coverage? and also, do you have any advice as to what conservatives should be prepared for in terms of coverage with the election in 2012? >> yeah, okay, remind me to address both parts of your question because my mind, there's so many things that i want to share in answer to that

question. first of all there were a lot of surprises, a lot of surprises with the media. and, you know, we all expect the unfair treatment that we all expect the double standard. but i was surprised how some conservative media, you know, we justify getting behind a man who co-authored the disclosed act which i essentially called a grassroots gag order with net income protection clause. and and also a man who supported cap-and-trade, a piece of legislation that i believe is really destructive to our economy. but yet conservative who also oppose these legislation, justify getting behind this candidate, you know, for reasons that i think are false. because it's better to have a republican in there. and my response to that, so first of all i was surprised that the malicious treatment from the conservative media. i mean, downright malicious way

they would repeat some of the false accusations that the former, i love saying the former delaware republican leadership, the former leadership would put out there. but to address that point, you know, number one exit polling shows that my opponent mike castle was declining in the polls. and before my parties attack against me, i was ahead in the general election and had a two to one advantage against the coveted independents. and i say that coveted independents because in delaware there are almost as many independents as there are republicans. so when you have a two to one advantage if you can secure your base and get out the vote, if you have a two to one advantage with the independence you can win. into we started inviting and republican cannibalism, if we have modeled what they did in kentucky i believe we would've had a republican in that seat. but there were some surprises.

i remember the day after the primary, good morning america wanted to talk to me, and my publicist, they have george stephanopoulos anything me and they were like no way, we're not putting her on with george stephanopoulos. and i'm like, i can handle george stephanopoulos. you know, surprise, surprise. but george stephanopoulos was very fair. very fair. and even, when he had on my opponent and i talk about this in the book in one of the pictures, i talk about how my democratic opponent, chris coons, everybody would ask him the winner of that elections should in the lame duck session because you would be sworn in to immediately fill the rest of the term vacated by joe biden. so my opponent, you know, had literally no less than five public positions on how he would

vote on extending the bush tax cuts. yet five public positions. so depending on the audience that the position that he took. and i would try to get this out there but, of course, i'd say it and runs like this but then it would never be picked up by the media. well, i was on good morning america one morning and then as i was leaving to go to the next campaign event, you know, they had chris coons on immediately after me. and george stephanopoulos says, your opponent accuses you of having no less than five positions on the tax cuts. can you tell me now how you would vote? and he says thank you george for a 90 opportunity, or something like this, i'm going to get accused of misquoting him, but thank you to the effect of, you know, you know, thank you for 90 opportunity to set the record straight. my position on the tax cuts has been and always been blah, blah, blah. george stephanopoulos, i could

have kissed the tv screen, pulls up his smart phone and says well, i have your website on my smartphone right here, and it says something different. i was like, you know, so george stephanopoulos of all people is the one who held him accountable. so again that didn't get a lot of play unfortunately, but i was very happy and it was a lesson learned. that obviously stephanopoulos was a democratic operative but he recognizes that his position now is a reporter. and he will throw the tough questions, but he does it evenly. he will throw them to the other side as well. so that's one of the surprises that i had is that where the unfair treatment came from, you know, sometimes i was surprised that it came from who should be friendly and supportive, and then a fair and balanced coverage came from people that i was going into these interviews expecting. so you can't really have a

prejudice about, you know, it's whose professional, and whether it's the ap or gannett. you never know. you never know who's going to choose to take the role as a professional journalist seriously and who's going to use that role to advance a political agenda. but as we are going into the 2012 elections, what we can expect is that, you know, we can expect unfair treatment. we can expect misinformation. but again, information technology has put the power back into the hands of the people. so at this time unlike ever before we are not powerless. yes, it means we have to work harder. yes, we have to stay one step ahead of them. but if we are vigilant we can defeat the power of the soundbite. and again, i have a whole chapter in their about how, first of all, you know, how the media derives its power from the

soundbite and how we can disarm it. you know, knowledge is to the soundbite what kryptonite is to superman. but we can use, we can use that soundbite to our advantage if we are just as clever, just as creative and just as vigilant. and just as unified. i mean, do you hear any democrats turning on each other, turning on their basic? the way that we are? you know, so, and did i address all three points? i did? remember, i might forget all of them. >> your last statement prompted me to get up and ask you a very specific question. how would you specifically unify the tea party's movement with the party speak was okay, well first of all what i think we have to do is be proud of the

principles on which our party was founded. right now though there's almost, i don't want to say an embarrassment, but, you know, whether it's joe biden calling the tea party terrorists or other people saying that the tea party is causing this paralysis in congress, you know, i think where that's coming from is because the tea party and the middle-class movement that propels the tea party has put the establishment on notice. and politics will not be the same. and the tea party, at least in my campaign, now maybe i shouldn't say this in a republican audience, but we have a lot of democrats. we had a lot of independence. and they are unified around this discontent with the career politicians have turned congress into a favor factory. and one of the things that we can recognize about the 2010 elections is that the reason why

so many tea party candidates won their primary is because their message was resonating with the everyday voters, and whether it was rand paul's grace, my race, they were engaging people in the political process like never before. and they were articulating common sense solutions that, you know, you don't need an ivy league degree in political science to get. so the message was resonating. and i think what that does is it proved the power of the message. again, these are the principles on which our country was founded. and as i said earlier there's the principles that made our country great and can still make our country great. so going forward how we can unify is if, you know, the establishment part of the party would get over bruised egos are

whatever is that has been frustrated, or recognize that you can't treat favors anymore, and erase the grass moves movement that won so many primaries on principles. if they would extend their expertise, extend the resources and the knowledge to this grassroots movement, and we could come together, that's what's going to defeat obama. but again unfortunately it is a big if. we've got to be unified. we've got to be on one message. we can't be pointing fingers at each other, but at the same time i don't think that there is any reason why we have to be embarrassed about our message. we've got a winning message. and in the chapter about defeating the soundbite, i talk about how freedom is inscribed on the heart of every individual. that's why we yearn for a better life for our children, that's why when you work you want to be appreciated. that's why you want to be valued and loved by your spouse,

because you want your unique preciousness, your individuality to be celebrated by those around you. and that is how freedom is inscribed in our hard. because in a free market economy, in what america once was, you have that freedom to take your god-given gifts, your very unique talents and go make a life for yourself. unlike a socialist or a communist economy where your role is given to you, and that's your life, like it or not. and you know, it's not that creativity. there's no room for outside of the box thinking. you do what you're told and, you know, if you're content with that, good for you. but don't try to make a better life for yourself. so, you know, again in the chapter i articulate that freedom is inscribed on the heart of every individual. our challenge is to articulate

that. if our message is not resonating with people, you don't abandon the message, you refrain the message. i wouldn't go to a 12 year old and talk about this very wonky stuff and why it's such a bad thing that the i am as is calling for the dollar to be removed from the reserve currency. because my nephew might understand because he's very smart, but most 12 year old won't get it to talk to them on their level but you don't abandon your principles are you just we frame the argument and that's what we need to do. and if we can do that as a party, as a movement, again, i'm very optimistic that we can make sure that barack obama is a one-term president. because everyone, i agree, let's applaud that notion. [applause] anyway, as you can tell i'm very passionate about that.

>> thank you. >> thank you. it was a great pleasure for us, and a great honor. >> thank you very much. thank you for having me. no, and think to bring patient with me being late. [applause] >> christine will sign your books in the front new where they are being sold. terrill will be selling the books, and she would use in signatures for you, all of you. and we want to thank her again. [applause] >> and good luck. good luck with everything, all your endeavors. >> thank you. i forgot to thank c-span for covering it. thank you, c-span, for covering the event. >> you're watching 40 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2's booktv.

spent on booktv we are joined by author dava sobel. who was copernicus? >> is a person to turn the universe inside out. >> how so? >> he was brave enough to say that the earth was actually moving, turning around and moving around the sun. at a time when everybody thought yours was the center of the universe and did not move. >> and what did that revelation create? >> havoc. that's what sent galileo to trial. but copernicus was really trying to figure out a way to predict the positions of the planet. that would make sense. and he realized that if you put the earth in motion, you didn't have to move the sun or the stars. and everything that had been confusing came into better sense. >> tell us a little bit about copernicus. >> he was an amateur astronomer.

he was an administrator for the catholic church. so people often think was the church opposed to the idea. not until later. and he had studied law and he was also a medical doctor. so he was the bishop's personal physician. and he was nevertheless unafraid to publish his books because he thought everybody would laugh at him and he was worried about ridicule and i would be laughed off the stage. so he decided not to publish this book that he spent his whole life writing. and then a young brilliant mathematician who heard about his work came to visit him, and talked him into publishing. >> who was that? >> he was a lutheran from martin luther's own university at wittenberg. and copernicus lived in a part of catholic poland where the lutherans had been banished.