Rich has an invitation/explainer going into more detail about why the National Review Institute is holding a Conservative Summit in D.C. next weekend and what it is exactly. Here is a bit of it:

The recent history of conservatism is that in disaster there is renewal. Barry Goldwater’s shellacking in 1964 paved the way for the conservative transformation of the Republican party. Jimmy Carter’s 1976 victory paved the way for Reagan. And Clinton paved the way for Gingrich. Will Nancy Pelosi pave the way for something positive, and if so, whom or what? We don’t know the answers to those questions. One of the purposes of the conference is to begin to answer them. Newt Gingrich, a one-man think tank, will kick off Saturday’s agenda with a breakfast speech. Then, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, arguably the most innovative Republican officeholder in the country the last few years, will talk over lunch about winning ideas in the states. This is not an event meant simply to cheer up the choir. We want to debate and suss out the way ahead. Ralph Reed and Ryan Sager will debate the Religious Right and its role in the GOP. Mark Krikorian and Tamar Jacoby will do battle over immigration reform. And we will have a debate on energy policy and the Iraq war. All should be entertaining, hard-hitting affairs.

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