honored to be on the platform with such distinguished conservative movers and shakers, governor daniels, mitch lowery, good friends, and it is an honor to be here with you today. i also want to recognize my personal friend, mike griefy. as a wisconsin-ite it is an honor to be here. i just want to note a great pop ed by arthur c. brooks saying that the great war is on capitalism. actually, the ideas of many friends in this room contributed to these remarks so you are all to blame. i am not going to spend my time picking over the ashes of the recent elections. republicans lost. conservatives and republicans are not exact -- are not exact equivalence. this is not to say americans have become liberals. more hurdles in on a per norse ship and appliance division of risktakers with a wall of -- hurdles in of entrepreneurship and division of risktakers. president bush himself admitted that when the meltdown began, he departed from capitalism in order to save it. let's just leave it at that for now. americans establish world standing as a people of exceptional character. in the 1830's, [unintelligible]

mitch daniels, former ceo of the hudson institute, former board member of the bradley association. he is becoming better and better known to main street americans about the kind of conservative reform that i am talking about today. the editor of the new it atlantic journal will give us his views finally, rich lowery. obviously, they are going to have a lot to say. [applause] >> i noticed in hudson's bulletin announcing this event, i am described as not shy about telling my party what it needs to do. well, i am shy. i have docked a lot of opportunities to mouth off about it. given my affection and loyalty to the two organizations that brought us together, i could not say no. i am very privileged and will go anywhere for the good people of hudson or those at the bradley foundation. i think we are here because we are all stunned and concerned by what i have come to think of as the shock and awe state that we have seen. one might call it audacious endeavor to overwhelm the defenses of freedom and free institutions before they have a chance to regroup or organize themselves. we worry th

. >> think about mitch daniels, one thing to understand his opponents in 2006 and very bad years for republicans and not in southern republican conservative states. >> right. >> don't we have, don't republicans need somebody from the north, not another southern candidate? >> republicans have a two-fold problem. they need a leader. they need someone who can articulate an alternative how we can get out. but two, they need someone with a sort of star wattage to match barack obama. >> that's hard. >> it is a tough road. a very tough road to hoe, but that's the dilemma that the republicans face right now. it's two-fold. >> look, i mean, if you're talking about a celebrity, there aren't very many of those that come around. can't you just have somebody who says that's beginning to suggest, look, i've governed well and i've dealt with principles and offered a kind of alternative leadership? >> i've started with someone who has confidence and they have to do that first, but i think you're also going to need a charismatic figure which i think why palin does have a shot and still going to go ok

mitch daniels, house ranking member paul ryan, and rich lowry of "the national review." gunston -- the hudson institute hosted this event. >> ok. good morning. my name is bill schambra, and i am director of the bradley center and washington. christa schaefer and i welcome you to the fifth annual bradley symposium, entitled "making conservatism credible again." a special welcome to our nationwide c-span audience. as are many groups represented this morning, the bradley center is a proud grantee of the blind and harry bradley foundation located in milwaukee. we are pleased to have some board members and spouses and staff with us. and my particular thanks to the bradley vice-president for this critical assistance in devising and executing this symposium. this symposium. a very young republican hill staffer named paul ryan stopped by the lion house to find out more about our civic renewal efforts in milwaukee and to announce he was going to run for the united states house of representatives in the first congressional district down lake michigan shoreline from milwaukee. that

in indiana, if the state budget did not pass, the governor mitch daniels was going to start shutting down things like the lottery and casinos that make money for the state, make money for people. i just don't understand that. i was raised in kokomo, indiana, which is an auto town. it employed chrysler, which is still there. and gm when it was delco, which is delphi now. we had delco all over the city. delco started taking jobs away from kokomo in the late 70's, so the auto industry has started taking our jobs away a long time ago. manufacturing has made this country the power that we had, starting in the 1950's. it employed thousands of people at the big companies. we started losing taxes ever since these companies started going out of the country with our jobs. we have a plant in logansport, that when it reopened, it started buzzing in people, a lot of illegals. my last comment is there is no bigger organized crime unit in this country than our own government. thank you. hoguest: if the state has to shut down because they don't have a budget, all kinds of things will close. hopefull

if you gave me another dozen mitch daniels, i could move the world. this is a wonderful cover story by my colleague, mark hemingway. i am an optimist, because as conservatives, we have to believe reality is on our side at the end of the day. we believe three things, if you want to boil them down. that the market is the best way to allocate capital, that the world as a dangerous place that requires a tough mindedness in confronting it, and you cannot have a healthy society without traditional social structures and without virtue. we do not believe these things because they are convenient or because they are popular. there are not always popular or convenient. we believe them because they are true, and because they are true, they will be vindicated eventually. in the meantime, i am an optimist because i believe with bismarck that god loves -- looks after drunkards, fools, and the united states of america, and he better. [laughter] thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you to all of our panelists. now we have time to turn it over to you. i know you ha

candidates that pop and meg whitman in california, interesting people in ohio running for office of the mitch daniels in indiana. it's just -- there are a lot of people from 2010 and 2012 that will start emerging. the sense we're stuck with palin is a mistake for republicans to be so -- >> another one of big stories over the last couple of days, this cia plan which apparently never became operational. new york times has more details on it saying the cia developed plans to dispatch small teams overseas to kill senior al qaeda terrorists but never got off the ground. >> here's liz talking to you and joe on the radio. about her father's possible involvement in this. >> well, first of all, the program appears to be classified. i want to be clear that my dad is not commenting on the program. i would point out, the program was apparently some kind of effort to come up with ways to capture or kill al qaeda leaders. if the democrats want to fight a fight over that type of program, that will just confirm for the american people once more why they can't be trusted with our national security. >> the plans remai