we are gathering together a team, we have a conservative green team like rick perry, herman kahne, frednd terry thompson, todd palin, j.c. watts, linda itmooifr, oliver north, a tremendous team. but in the end, we need you. if we can be together, there are many people -- we have more names -- you can go to newt.org and add more names. all of the years i work in this party, this movement, this is the year to reset this country in the decisive, bold way. we need to teach the republican establishment a lesson. we are determined to rebuild america, not to manage its decay. with your help, that is what we'll do. thank you, good luck, god bless you. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> c-span continues its live coverage of the conservative political action conference in washington, d.c. today with texas senator tom cornyn. he's the chairman of the national republican senatorial committee and he's scheduled to speak. the cpac presidential straw poll. then at 4:30, remarks by former alaska governor and nominee sarah palin. our live coverage today begins at 2:15 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> president obama h

herman kahn, he did a lot of work for the defense department. i'm quite confident he never held a position in government, and the idea would've been completely laughable. at aei with people like ben wattenberg and jeane kirkpatrick who had worked in politics and in government, but we also had many people and people that did much of our most important work, irving kristol, charles murray, michael novak, who had never been in politics. they were students of politics, they applied what they understood to be the difficulties of the political world, but they had no ambitions for being part of politics. i don't think that those of us who are adherents of the old school who are part of the old school of think tanks ought to feel threatened. we certainly should not look down our nose at the newer groups that have come along and are operating much closer to the edge of political action. it's a free country, in any event, still a rotelle free country where the first amendment is concerned. people are perfectly free to adopt different strategies in the kin