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The Future of Conservatism

Posted on | August 6, 2010 | 3 Comments

I’m at the Young America’s Foundation National Conservative Student Conference, where YAF vice president Patrick X. Coyle explains everything:

Will have further updates, but you can follow the conference on Twitter at #NCSC10, and there is also a live Webcast.

UPDATE: Now a few photos from the conference:

A young conservative activist takes notes on a lecture by Princeton University Professor Robert George.

Ruth Malhotra and Orit Sklar talk to Professor George after his lecture.

Patrick Coyle is all about the Twitter.

UPDATE II: How cool is a YAF conference? Well, while I was sitting here uploading the photos above, I looked up and . . .

Frank Donatelli and Stephen Moore. Just hangin’ out. Pretty cool.

UPDATE III: I was unsuccessful in persuading Kate Obenshain to don the famous fedora, alas:

UPDATE IV: Wow, what a coincidence that I should run into a fellow Atlanta native here at the YAF conference:

Sarah Perkins, an alumna of Fulton County’s Westlake High, with Alyssa Cordova of the Claire Boothe Luce Policy Institute. Sarah is now attending Smith College (an elite “Seven Sisters” school), and told me that her dad went to school with Herman Cain. How cool is that, huh?

Category: Conservatism 101, Education, Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, Video

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3 Responses to “The Future of Conservatism”

  1. Estragon
    August 7th, 2010 @ 5:56 am

    Kate Obenshain . . . having left the Old Dominion nearly 25 years ago to return to my ancestral home in South Carolina, I’m not familiar with her. But I knew her father . . . Dick Obenshain was the Virginia GOP Chairman who engineered the emergence and ascendancy of the Republican Party in Virginia. A strong and valiant fighter for conservative causes, he won the 1978 primary for U.S. Senate hands down, and would have made one of history’s great Senators – think Reagan in the Senate, but schooled enough in the political arts to craft victories instead of compromises.

    Unfortunately, he died in a plane crash before the election (which he would have won in a landslide), and the Party hastily called a convention which nominated the second-place primary finisher, John Warner. The rest is history, tinged with the thought of what might have been.

    If she’s anything like her Dad, she’s Aces.

  2. Estragon
    August 7th, 2010 @ 1:56 am

    Kate Obenshain . . . having left the Old Dominion nearly 25 years ago to return to my ancestral home in South Carolina, I’m not familiar with her. But I knew her father . . . Dick Obenshain was the Virginia GOP Chairman who engineered the emergence and ascendancy of the Republican Party in Virginia. A strong and valiant fighter for conservative causes, he won the 1978 primary for U.S. Senate hands down, and would have made one of history’s great Senators – think Reagan in the Senate, but schooled enough in the political arts to craft victories instead of compromises.

    Unfortunately, he died in a plane crash before the election (which he would have won in a landslide), and the Party hastily called a convention which nominated the second-place primary finisher, John Warner. The rest is history, tinged with the thought of what might have been.

    If she’s anything like her Dad, she’s Aces.

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