next to him it is thomas fuentes who is a leading republican in the state of california. a longtime chairman of the orange county republican committee, one of the nation's most leading hispanic businessmen and also joining us is jon utley a long time conservative activist the associate publisher of the american conservative magazine a monthly that many of you pat buchanan writes for the publication i want to thank them for joining us. i would like to ask each panelist to start with a three or five minute response about what they think about the future of conservatism and if it is true the brighter than we see it now and many people have a pessimistic view but i am hoping that we will get a silver lining today in this cloud of obama common the overcast in washington. let's start with richard and move down the row. >> thank you chris. i do believe conservatives will govern in the future. in my lifetime i have been involved in three times of the national level of helping conservatives capture the republican party. 1964 goldwater, it 80 reagan, 94 gingrich revolution providin

thomas fuentes is a senior fellow at the claremont institution for the study of statesmanship and political philosophy and former chairman of the republican party orange county california. this talk was part of freedomfest 2009. to find up more visit freedomfest.com. >> we are at the 2009 bookexpo america, booksellers commission of the java center new york city. with the booth of bloombury walker books, the family books and i'm here with peter miller. what you have coming out this fall? >> the most ambitious an exciting book is the one that is over my shoulder which is logicomix homographic velvel. we don't normally published a graphic novels but we decided to do this one because it is a historical biography of bertrand russell and as crazy as that sounds it is an interesting novel of ideas than the two people who were behind it are mathematicians and computer science experts so they decided to sort of approach the idea of the foundation of mathematics and the life of burton dressel as told in comic-book form because for them a big idea of what bertrand russell was pursuing was actually as