I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

I’d like to do policy and I’d like to do philosophy, I’d like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument – that’s the kind of stuff I want to do.

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

In general President Obama’s policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don’t think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn’t have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that’s just a given… but we’re cool nerds.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside – it’s the filling that really means something.