Salon.com led with a feature on my place of employment on Wednesday, calling the Leadership Institute "one of the best investments the conservative movement has ever made." The article can be read here after viewing a brief advertisement.
The Reagan Revolution, the Contract With America, and other conservative advancements are in part attributable to the work of an amorphous entity known as the Conservative Movement. "After Goldwater's defeat, the number of people who would admit to being movement conservatives could all have fit into an average phone booth," Leadership Institute President Morton Blackwell told Salon writer Jeff Horwitz. "And among us, we didn't have a dime for a telephone call." Times have changed. Recent setbacks can blind conservatives to longterm gains. Republican leaders no longer implement wage and price controls, support such nonsense as the Equal Rights Amendment, or preach peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union (because it's gone!). The Conservative Movement, of which the Leadership Institute has been an integral part for a quarter century, deserves some credit for these positive developments.
Surprisingly, some on the Left are more than willing to give such credit to the Institute. "Sure, [Blackwell] has trained Karl Rove and Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist and 223 other legislators and members of Congress," Peter Murray of the liberal Center for Progressive Leadership conceded to Horwitz, "but more importantly, he's trained 40,000 other local organizers." Murray continued: "We spent $2 billion trying to win this last election.... [Conservatives] spent 25 years, and nearly $100 million, building the talent pool that won the election. And which will consistently win them elections for the next several decades."
I direct the Institute's Campus Leadership Program, which trains young conservatives to be more effective activists, helps launch conservative student publications, and sends out dozens of field representatives to start and to bolster conservative activist groups on campus. To see what conservatives are up against at the nation's top schools, check out Deep Blue Campuses, the study I conducted through the Leadership Institute. If you ever wondered why the Right needs such a thing as the Leadership Institute, it's because the Left has hundreds of them. They're called Harvard, Duke, Amherst, Stanford, Swarthmore, MIT, Berkeley, Yale...
I am surprised Salon.com would ever say ANYTHING praising the Conservative movement. Or I am I thinking of Slate Magazine? Not sure.
I have been to 3 schools at LI and love it! It's the best bootcamp for conservative activists.
Regarding your study Dan, I was surprised to see this:
Dartmouth
Infinity
100% to 0%
39 to 0
I was under the impression that Dartmouth was one of the more conservative leaning Ivy leagues. hmmm.
