Winter 2009

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Less than 48 hours after John McCain conceded defeat in the presidential election, a group of conservative activists gathered for a post-mortem at the Stanley, Virginia, weekend home of Brent Bozell III. The meeting had been planned well before the election, but the participants kept it quiet, to avoid the appearance they were “measuring the coffin for McCain,” as one of them later put it. Still the group, organized by Bozell, founder of the conservative press watchdog Media Research Center and a nephew of William F. Buckley, wanted to get to work quickly after the Republican Party’s across-the-board loss.
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