Its snowing in College Station, Texas.  Not just snowing, but actually sticking and building up!  This is the first time in the 5 years that I have been here that there has been <i>any</i> snow stick.  My friend says that its snowing in Houston as well.

There can’t be any doubt that global warming is occurring – this is proof positive.

Ken Blackwell announced on Facebook today that he is going to run for RNC chair.  (www.facebook.com/home.php?#/note.php?note_id=37876822402&ref=nf)  This is awesome news!  While Steele and the others mentioned would do a decent job, I believe that Blackwell is the top choice so far, especially since someone like Gingrich isn’t going to run. Steele, while a decent guy, is a little too questionable for social conservatives to be able to run as well as possible.

Blackwell is a solid three-legged conservative and I don’t think that either fiscons or socons can complain about what he did in Ohio. He wants to reorganize and change the way that the RNC operates and is proposing an “RNC Conservative Resurgance Plan” according to his official letter on Facebook. The only downside is that possibly the Republican problems in Ohio might come up, but he wasn’t closely enough connected to cause a problem.

Now that the election is over and we have to start looking at our plans for 2010 and 2012, it would be good to examine conservatism and what we can concentrate on in the meantime. E Pluribus Unum started an excellent series on conservatism a while back, and hopefully, will do more in the future. I am not trying to take his place on it, but wanted to start a conversation on what conservatism is on the policy level and what we need to prioritize in order to make progress in public opinion and policy now that the election is over.

Here are my top three suggestions:

• Our primary purpose and #1 objective should be to honor the Constitution and impress its uniqueness and importance on the public. A good understanding of originalism would do more than any other political move we could make to bring about a conservative majority. This nation may still be center-right, but we are much more center than right. We must change this.

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