Conservative’s Handbook


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WARNING: This book may inform you, humor you, or enrage you With today's fractious political environment and a splintered Republican party, the time is ripe for an updated edition of popular radiotalk show host Phil Valentine's powerful conservative manifesto. The Conservative's Handbook redefines the Right's stance on fiscal and social issues, and serves as a rallying cry for Americans to fight for the preservation of the traditional values of this great country. This essential guide covers a full array of issues from A Z, including belief in God, military strength, zero tolerance for crime, the wisdom of Ronald Reagan, and much more...




The Handbook for Closet Conservatives


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If you feel like barfing every time you read about him marrying him or think we should abolish busing now that many of our schools are war zones, but are afraid to say it in the liberal world we live indont. Dont say anything until you hear what Leften Wright has to say. He tells you what to say and not say, what to do and not do, and have a good time while doing or not doing it. A little humor is a deadly thing to liberals. Global warming is a religion. School vouchers are a greater threat than terrorism. They see racism everywhere. Fracking is Frankensteinian. Anything good for America is bad. Wright shares his strategies with you on how to make your way through that world, and have a great time while doing it. He suggests profiting like Al Jazeera Gore from the unwinnable fight against climate change and sneaking plastic bottles into your liberal neighbors paper-only bin in the dead of night. It would be prudent to slip this book into that jacket your child made at preschool. If you are reading it on a tablet, be prepared to press the Bats Endangered button if you sense someone peeking.




Fight the Right


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Everywhere you look, these days, Conservatives are winning elections. No matter where you look, the story is the same: white, angry men on the Right are winning power. The Left, meanwhile, is divided and dispirited, and rapidly losing ground. Fight the Right is a handbook on how to survive the nasty, brutish and short-sighted era in which we find ourselves and is designed to help progressives better understand their conservative adversary, and ultimately defeat conservatives wherever the battle is taking shape. It's a manual on how conservatives have appropriated language and values, and how progressives can take both back. Written in a fun, accessible, style, Fight the Right will appeal to those about to launch an advocacy effort, as well as those who are simply curious about how (and if) the Right thinks. It is chock full of war stories and not-so-tall tales about winning progressive campaigns, from everyone from Jean Chretien to Bobby Kennedy, Jr., and it will argue--forcefully--that a United Right can't be defeated until a United Left emerges. Wherever conservative power-brokers are hurting average citizens and hard-working families, Fight the Right will provide a tested road map on how to beat the bullies.




The Young Conservative's Field Guide


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"The Young Conservative's Field Guide" is a compilation of charts, figures and original research designed to provide conservatives in their 20s and 30s a foundation of knowledge to debate and engage their peers. This book equips readers with accessible information similar to the way a field guide would; colorful, engaging, easily referenced and informative, yet brief: full-color pages in vibrant visual presentation. Concentrating on the major campaign promises and agenda points of President Obama, the book is will benefit readers because it provides easily digestible data and research that can quickly be absorbed and referenced.







Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism


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The modern conservative intellectual movement began in 1953 with Russell Kirk’s groundbreaking book The Conservative Mind. Four years later, he published a pithy, wry, philosophical summary of what conservatism really means. Originally titled The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Conservatism, this little book was essentially a popular version of The Conservative Mind. Now, a century after its author’s birth, this neglected gem has been recovered. It remains what Kirk intended it to be: an accessible introduction to conservative ideas, especially for the young. With a new title and an introduction by the eminent intellectual historian Wilfred M. McClay, Russell Kirk’s Concise Guide to Conservatism arrives with uncanny timing. The movement that Kirk defined in 1953 is today so contested and fragmented that no one seems able to say with confidence what conservatism means. This book, as fresh and prophetic as the day it was published sixty years ago, is a reminder that no one can match Russell Kirk in engaging people’s minds and imaginations—an indispensable task in reviving our civilization.




Getting America Right


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This wake-up call implores all citizens to fight for the conservative principles and values that made America great but that most political leaders--including Republicans--are abandoning.




Reading the Right Books


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The things I want to know are in books, Abraham Lincoln wrote, and so he read. Good books are rightly addictive, enticing the dedicated reader to open more books, and gain more knowledge, and come closer to wisdom. The more one reads, John Adams observed, the more one sees we have to read.Books contain the ideas, make the arguments, and preserve the history necessary for the maintenance and perpetuation of liberty.Reading the Right Books is a practical list of thoughtful and accessible books-not the classics but solidly good books-recommended to provide a general framework around which the reader can build a firmer structure of political knowledge.Edited and annotated by Lee Edwards, the Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at The Heritage Foundation, Reading the Right Books is a guide for intelligent, conservative-minded readers who want to prepare themselves for a public life of thought and action, and to seek to know more about politics, public policy and modern conservative thought, as well as literature, economics, religion, history, and statesmanship.




Rules for Radical Conservatives


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Are you a frustrated conservative shocked by the bunch of far Left fanatics driving the bus—and our future—off a cliff? It’s time to fight back with the same ruthlessness that has served the radicals so well—not just now, but for the long term. And who better to reveal their strategies—and their fatal weaknesses—than one of their own? Playing on his all-too-typical hubris and good old greed, we’ve recruited well-known liberal apparatchik David Kahane to lead conservatives out of the political wilderness, whether he means to or not. Is he arrogant and obnoxious? Absolutely. Does he deliver the goods? You betcha. We’ll let Dave speak for himself: Please allow me to introduce myself. . . . My name is David and I’m going to share some secrets. I’m going to take you into the smoke-free back rooms of today’s progressive political machine to reveal how it really operates—and how you can bring it down. I’ll lay out the rules we radicals have used to run circles around you, and clue you in on how to make them work for you, too. How do I know this stuff? As the son of the sainted “Che” Kahane, I’ve been schooled in the art of seizing and holding political power as we transform America one antiquated tradition and constitutional clause at a time. Now I work in Hollywood, where I’ve perfected the game pioneered by such pros as Machiavelli, Saul Alinsky, and Al Capone, father of the immortal Chicago Way. Read on and learn from our time-tested techniques: • Know your enemy, his intentions, his weapons, and his weaknesses. You too can play relentless, on-message hardball with every scandal, hypocrisy, lie, and fundamentally flawed policy your adversaries dish up. • Become what you behold. Adopt some of our scorched-earth tactics, best described in David Mamet’s Untouchables: “They pull a knife, you pull a gun.” • Take no prisoners. Attack our premises, expose their true nature and consequences, and pin them on us, hard. • Never cede anything to the other side, philosophically speaking. Force the Left to argue facts, not emotions. We hate that. • Treat us with the same respect we give you. None. • It is better to be feared than liked, especially by your enemies. And it helps to show up for the fight. (Note to past and future Republican candidates.) Why am I telling you all this? Because I thrive on making trouble and, frankly, because I’m proud of what my team has done. Between us, I don’t think it matters if I turn over our playbook to you at this late date. I don’t think you can get it together to stop us now. Plus, I got a lot of money. Happy reading, America! You think you can take us down? Go for it. I dare you. From the Hardcover edition.




How to Elect Conservatives


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Are you a conservative running for election to public office? If you are then this book will help you become a stronger candidate, and win. Are you helping your fellow conservative get elected to a local or state office? If you are How to Elect Republicans will help you plan and deliver a successful election campaign. Or maybe you have the job of raising the money needed for a local GOP campaign. This book tells you all you need to know about political fundraising. Do you need to learn how to communicate the message of conservatism effectively to the public so that voters will support your candidate? Detailed instructions on that are in the book as well. Politics in American is a rough game. Are you ready to play hardball? This book tells you how to do opposition research and deliver convincing attacks on your liberal opponent, and how to respond when your side is attacked. In a close election campaign it all comes down to getting out the vote. You will do that effectively by following the instructions in this book. This book is NOT about how to win the White House. But it is about winning all those other elected offices - for state legislatures, judge, school board, mayor and town council, county officials, sheriff, auditor, and all the rest of the half a million elected public offices in America - for conservatives. Every member of every election campaign team in the country needs a copy. Craig Copland has been involved in marketing, fundraising, and local politics for over forty years. Now he is dedicated to helping people like you who are willing to serve your country as an elected public official. He has written this book so that conservatives like you can plan and win election campaigns. can and should be. If you are a conservative candidate running for office, or working hard to elect your fellow conservative, this book is for you.