Circulated by me January 20, 2013 to members of the Republican National Committee. *** Dear RNC Colleague, On January 13, I submitted to our Chairman and our Secretary the below motion to amend The Rules of the Republican Party. In the years before our 2012 Republican National Convention, the RNC’s Standing Committee on Rules (one member per state and territory) met to consider possible changes | Read More »
The below letter was sent November 30 to all U.S. Senators and Representatives. I drafted it with some edits by Colin Hanna. It was sent out through Coalitions for America. Colin Hanna is CFA President, and I am CFA Vice President. November 30, 2012 An Open Letter to U.S. House and Senate Republicans Dear Republican U.S. Representatives and Senators: You are entering into | Read More »
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 »
Remarks Presented at the Faith, Family and Freedom Dinner Family Research Council Washington, D.C. September 15, 2012 Thank you for the great and undeserved honor you pay me tonight. Previously you have given this annual award to people who deserve recognition far more than I do. The honor is increased for me because I have such a deep admiration for the great achievements of the | Read More »
Below is the art work for a 3-inch button I produced and distributed at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. It was well received. I did not copyright the words or the design. Anyone who wishes to use it for buttons, bumper stickers, or otherwise is welcome to do so. Have fun.
I have posted below three letters to my fellow Republican National Convention Delegates. These letters express my views on the controversy at the 2012 Republican National Convention regarding the Rules of the Republican Party ________________________________________________ September 3, 2012 Dear Fellow Delegate, Now that the national convention is over, many delegates and others have asked me to sum up my views on the controversy at | Read More »
A political party is an empty vessel that takes on meaning only through the policy advocacy and the policy actions of those people who join it and lead it. Today, the Republican Party is the main representative in the public policy process for the conservative principles of limited government, free enterprise, strong national defense and traditional family values. Because those principles have deep roots in America, | Read More »
By recruiting 34 U.S. senators who have publicly committed to vote against the proposed Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), conservatives have ended any chance that the Senate will ratify this year that treaty which President Reagan opposed so courageously. But LOST and other treaties damaging to U.S. national sovereignty will continue to be pushed in future years by Democrats, the liberal establishments in the | Read More »
Discussion of the vice presidential nomination, while a topic useful to journalists and commentators who have deadlines to meet, is quite often a waste of time, if discussion is meant to influence the actual decision. It’s in every presumptive nominee’s interest to keep as many influential people as possible believing they are on the future presidential nominee’s short list. That leads them to do all | Read More »
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 Occupiers can become a big political liability for the left in the 2012 elections, if conservatives firmly wrap that albatross around the liberals’ necks. All manner of leftists instinctively leapt to support Occupy Wall Street and similar protests elsewhere because class warfare and street demonstrations have for generations been key organizing tactics for leftists. Here is an actual and typical endorsement: “The Socialist Party | Read More »
The American left is still shaken by the success of spontaneous conservative grassroots participation in tea party activities leading up to the 2010 elections. In desperation, leftists now hope to profit from the Occupy Wall Street gatherings which have spread to many other locations. Haven’t the mainstream print and broadcast media, overwhelmingly liberal, given massive and sympathetic coverage to the Occupiers? Isn’t this a good | Read More »
As our country approaches the hour of decision on raising the federal government’s debt limit, several conservative sources have offered different plans to prevent the national government bankruptcy that every sensible person knows is inevitable unless major systemic changes are made. If some systemic changes are made in connection with raising the debt limit, those changes will, at best, “kick the can down the road,” | Read More »
Most states would lose power in U.S. presidential elections under the proposed National Popular Vote (NPV) plan now being considered by many state legislatures. In support of the National Popular Vote State Compact, some states have already passed laws awarding all their electoral votes to the U.S. presidential candidate who wins a national plurality of the popular vote. This bad idea would be constitutional because | Read More »
The key to understanding Newt Gingrich is that he positioned himself as the leader of conservative Republicans in the House, used the House Republican Study Committee (HRSC) as his vehicle for years to advance himself, and then, when he became Speaker, changed the rules to destroy the House Republican Study Committee. He used the HRSC as a ladder to the top and then removed the | Read More »
Last year’s election results provided many opportunities for conservatives to beat back the forces of big government which are about to bankrupt our country. Some elected Republicans are missing the biggest of those opportunities they have. See my letter, below, to my old friend, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels: ******************************* March 1, 2010 The Honorable Mitch Daniels Office of the Governor Indiana Statehouse 200 W. Washington | Read More »
The most important political development of the just-concluded election cycle is the enormously effective, new, political involvement of grassroots conservatives through the Tea Party groups and other, major, analogous organizations. My Leadership Institute has trained newly active conservatives in partnership with every one of these major groups. My staff and I therefore probably understand all these groups as well or better than anyone else. If | Read More »
Immediately following the November 2 election, I mailed a letter of advice to 27 just-elected conservative officials. I have decided to release this letter to the public. This historic election brings much opportunity and danger. Hundreds of grassroots conservatives will soon enter local, state, and federal government. Liberals in the bureaucracies, media, and the party establishments will do their very best to co-opt or derail | Read More »
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 »
At every meeting of the Republican National Committee (RNC), there’s a meeting of the RNC’s Standing Committee on Rules, on which I serve for Virginia. I proposed that a Party Unity Pledge with teeth in it be added to the national Rules of the Republican Party. On August 5 the RNC Rules Committee approved this important change with only one negative vote. After almost certain | Read More »
Among the millions of newly active grassroots conservatives in politics, thousands of the best are coming to the Leadership Institute this year to study how to win. Institute staff and volunteer experts are teaching at dozens of Institute political training programs across America co-sponsored with LI separately by Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party Nation, Americans for Prosperity, Freedom Works, FreedomFest, and many other grassroots-based organizations. | Read More »
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 »
All – I commend to you this very important piece by one of the most important conservatives in the country. One thing I’ve always admired about Morton is that he is an unimpeachable movement conservative who at the same time remains an amazingly effective Republican Party official. Morton’s observations, advice, and counsel for Republicans are absolutely spot-on. -Krempasky Events of the past year should persuade | Read More »
For those of you not familiar with Morton Blackwell, he runs the Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C. and has served as the Virginia Republican National Committeeman since 1988. He was President Ronald Reagan’s White House liaison (1981-84) to all U.S. conservative organizations. This is a speech Mr. Blackwell gave at the Louisa County Republican Committee luncheon November 12, 2008. — Erick Thank you for your | Read More »
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