for example bob taft for barry goldwater or reagan newt gingrich before he became famous visceral important conservatives,. >> also congressman frank. >> right, right, right, barney frank, yes indeed. and as service as we move from a system of citizen legislators into career legislators, i think for my own experience what i've been able to see, and i think from what people have been able to put together and following the news carefully is the temptation to protect your right to get reelected overwhelms your willingness to always votes the way your conscience tells you you ought to vote. when i was elected to come even though i was elected as a candidate on the conservative party i joined the republican caucus, and shortly after we were sworn in, john tower, then in charge of recruiting new members opened by saying you're first obligation from now one is to ensure your free election so many of you when you're in office the bell will ring and you're supposed to race to the senate floor to vote on something you've never heard of before. there's no way of keeping track of everything before. the

newt gingrich. >> guest: yeah. >> host: do you think newt gingrich shares your father's soul or integrity? >> guest: i think there's a lot of people who, in fact, really knew ronald reagan and shared parts and pieces of ronald reagan. and i think one of the mistakes we make is while looking for the next ronald reagan, we may walk right by the next great leader of the conservative movement, the great leader in this country. and i say that when i go out and speak that, you know, there's a lot of of great leaders out there. we need to find them but don't walk past them looking for ronald reagan. feel lucky that in our lifetimes we had a ronald reagan who was president of the united states of america. feel good about that, but when you start looking at everybody in relationship to ronald reagan, nobody's going to add up. we didn't vote for ronald reagan because we were looking for abraham lincoln. we didn't vote for ronald reagan because we were looking for george washington. we were electing a leader and somebody that, in fact, we trusted, and that's what we're looking for today. and if we don't find that person, we're going to keep on going in the spiraling downhill mode

newt gingrich. does he share your father's soul or integrity? >> guest: there are a lot of people who really knew ronald reagan and shared parts and pieces of ronald reagan and one of the mistakes we make is when looking for the next ronald reagan we may walk right by the next great leader of the conservative movement. a great leader in this country. i say that when i go out and speak. there are a lot of great leaders out there. we need to find them because we are looking for ronald reagan. feel lucky we had ronald reagan who was president of the united states. feel good about that but when you start looking at everybody and in relationship to ronald reagan nobody will let up. we didn't vote for ronald reagan because liberal looking for abraham lincoln or george washington. we elected ronald reagan because we were elected a leader, someone we trusted. that is what we are looking for today. if we don't find that person we will keep going in a spiral down hill mode we are in and we need to find that person who will stand up and be honest with us. and they have to be honest with themselves. >> host: would your father govern differently today? >> gues

there was newt gingrich's contracts for the america and numerous groups associated with ronald reagan about bringing in more fiscal speedometer for our country, -- responsibility for our country, and lately there's been the tea party movements that really i think our panelists can talk a little bit about that, but the questions that arise from the tea party movement of are interest -- are of interest to us today, and in particular, the concern of having an african-american president and the response to it. there's an interesting poll that we were discussing before our session commenced today that 40% of people on the right believe that the president is a muslim, and this kind of perception that is out there has in some says driven the sentiment that our country is under attack and there's the theme of it's time to take our country back. another issue is this sense that there is discrime mages against the majority, and therefore the shirley sherrod case, the woman, the african-american woman fired based on statements contributed to her that were later retracted and an apology was made

newt gingrich's movement with the contract for america. there and the number of groups associated with ronald reagan that have talked about bringing in more fiscal responsibility for our country. and lately, there has been the tea party movement that really i think our panelists can talk a little bit about that, but the questions that arise from this tea party movement are of note and interest to us today. in particular, the concern over having an african-american president and the response to it. there is an interesting poll that we were discussing before our session commenced today that 40% of people on the right believe that the president is a muslim, and this kind of perception that is out there has in some ways driven the sentiment that our country is under attack and there is the theme of it is time to take our country back. another issue is the sense that there is discrimination against the majority, and therefore the shirley sherrod case, the woman involved, africa and a woman -- african-american woman who was fired based on statements attributed to her that were later retracted and an apology was given by the secretary of agricul

newt gingrich's movement with the contract for america. there and the number of groups associated with ronald reagan that have talked about bringing in more fiscal responsibility for our country. and lately, there has been the tea party movement that really i think our panelists can talk a little bit about that, but the questions that arise from this tea party movement are of note and interest to us today. in particular, the concern over having an african-american president and the response to it. there is an interesting poll that we were discussing before our session commenced today that 40% of people on the right believe that the president is a muslim, and this kind of perception that is out there has in some ways driven the sentiment that our country is under attack and there is the theme of it is time to take our country back. another issue is the sense that there is discrimination against the majority, and therefore the shirley sherrod case, the woman involved, africa and a woman -- african-american woman who was fired based on statements attributed to her that were later retracted and an apology was given by the secretary of agricul

for example bob taft for barry goldwater or reagan newt gingrich before he became famous visceral important conservatives,. >> also congressman frank. >> right, right, right, barney frank, yes indeed.