An open letter to conservatives

    I had a very exciting time at the Republican National Convention.  My conservative allies and I all worked very hard in the presidential election. When I woke up the day after the election, everything I had worked for appeared to be in ruins.  An extreme leftist had been reelected president of the United States. Some liberal Republicans immediately began to blame newly activated conservatives for | Read More »

    Don’t Count Delegates Before They Are Hatched

    News media, political pundits, and the candidates themselves make unwarranted assumptions as they report the number of delegate votes won to date by candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.  They don’t know or they choose to ignore one of the Rules of the Republican Party which govern the nomination process this year. That is Rule 15 (b)(2). In a contested convention, which means that | Read More »

    THE REAL NATURE OF POLITICS

    What I am about to share with you is probably the most important lesson you will learn at any time in your life about success in the public policy process. Conservatives did not understand the real nature of politics for many years and certainly did not begin to teach it systematically until the early 1970s.  Many conservatives today haven’t learned it yet. Please bear with | Read More »

    A Renewed Conservative Republican Majority

    A Renewed Conservative Republican Majority By Morton C. Blackwell History never repeats itself exactly, but there are patterns in history which repeat themselves. For instance, the recent election results in Virginia, in New Jersey, and, most spectacularly, in Massachusetts, lead me to believe that the November 2010 elections may produce results for Republicans similar to the 1994 elections. The landslide elections of 2008 may be | Read More »