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John Hawkins examines a National Review piece by James Gimpel. Here is a bit of the flavor of Gimpel’s work:
A campaign doesn’t move toward them [centrist or moderate voters], but instead attempts to inspire them to come in the candidate’s direction. The incoherent center moves to the left or to the right, inspired by the [...]

A look back at the election:
All of the landslide majority did not vote against the conservative philosophy; they voted against a false image our Liberal opponents successfully mounted. Indeed it was a double false image. Not only did they portray us as advancing a kind of radical departure from the status quo, but they took [...]

Veterans Day Proclamation
October 31, 2008
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
On Veterans Day, we pay tribute to the service and sacrifice of the men and women who in defense of our freedom have bravely worn the uniform of the United States.
From the fields and forests of war-torn Europe to the jungles [...]

I’ve started a discussion thread in the forum on this topic.
Just a simple question to open the discussion: What are the core conservative values?
Remember, we are talking about values here, not policies. For example - Fiscal Responsibility is a value, curbing earmarks is a policy. Let’s limit the discussion to the values.
Have at it.

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We are not the only site or group intent on rebuilding and reintroducing conservative values into government. Patrick Ruffini and a large group of other conservatives have launched Rebuild the Party. From their site:
Either we can spend the next several months — or years — trying to figure out what just happened, excusing our defeat [...]

Reclaiming conservatism is going to take the involvement of everyone who believes in conservative principles. ReclaimConservatism.com is going to take group involvement as well. Here’s how you can help:

Add Reclaim Conservatism to your blogroll.
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In order to reclaim conservatism it is important, I believe, that a certain hierarchy is observed: Principles, Policies, and then People.
One of the reasons that the Republican party (I hate the concept of “brand”) has fallen into such disarray is due to the mis-ordering of those three “Ps”. For this discussion let’s look at these [...]

I secured the domain and started this site in May of this year inspired by a post by Doug Ross. Examining the results of last night’s election leads me to believe that the idea behind Reclaim Conservatism is going to be needed more than ever.
Of course defining true conservatism can be as difficult as determining [...]

Here is part of an interview the local newspaper did with my representative, Adam Putnam (R-FL12). It’s a long answer, but a good one, about the GOP House plan on energy.
There is no one magic formula or silver bullet out there that anyone is aware of that’s going to eliminate our dependence on foreign sources [...]

I just want to take this brief moment to thank Stix for keeping things going here at Reclaim Conservatism. Please keep checking in, we really do hope to grow things here.

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