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Republicans control Congress and the White House, and yet what do conservatives have to show for it? Big Government is bigger than ever, spending has grown faster than at any time since LBJ's Great Society, and the War on Terror has morphed into an unsustainable, pie-eyed crusade for “ending tyranny in our world.” Meanwhile, the GOP is mired in scandals that, together with its poor legislative performance, threaten significant electoral losses in 2006 and 2008. But all is not lost. In Why I Am Still a Conservative, conservative pundit and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan rallies the conservative faithful and calls for a return to basic conservatism – the ideas that motivated the Reagan Revolution.

To Noonan, conservatism today means what it always has: a commitment to limited government, ordered liberty, and a strong national defense. But what, she asks, is “conservative” about a prescription drug benefit that constitutes the largest expansion of Medicare since that disastrous program's inception? What is “conservative” about a “No Child Left Behind” act that vastly increases federal involvement in public education? What is “conservative” about a foreign policy that commits American blood and treasure to global utopianism rather than to American interests, pure and simple?

Noonan explains what the Republican Party must do now to reclaim their conservative base – not only to win elections but because it is the right thing to do. Shunning the conventional wisdom that conservative voters have “nowhere else to go” but the GOP, she makes a strong case for a third-party challenge designed, if nothing else, to shock the Republican Party back to its roots.


About the Author
Peggy Noonan, a former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, is currently a columnist and contributing editor at the Wall Street Journal. She is also the author of When Character Was King, John Paul the Great, and other bestsellers. She lives in Manhattan, New York.