This article could have been a repeat of most of the comments on the last piece. I strongly recommend you go back and read them carefully.

They reflect the kind of thinking I did in Washington. It worked. It worked miraculously. But it was so basic and simple, exactly like the kind of thinking that went into the whole Mantra approach, that it approached the miraculous in results.

Each comment shows a person deciding what HE (she, or it, if you want Political Correctness) does right now. It is hard, practical talk.

Those of you who are now pros will understand what I mean. But it is very important for it to be noted specifically.

Here, in the real world, the reason I could exercise so much power with so few resources was as basic as Newton’s gravity. If you were allowed onto Capitol Hill staff, you would be devastating, and you would find it as impossible as I did to explain WHY.

For example, I got the distinct impression that the biggest thing people did at the Centers of Power was to have lunch. You work for the person, someone who had lunch with him regularly, recommended you to.

The famous Laffer Curve, which we all non-Mommy Professors knew about for many years, was sketched out by Laffer for Kemp on a napkin at lunch.

Odd as it sounds, one thing that may have turned so many people off of me was the fact that I didn’t lunch. I almost never attended those big lunches where the conservatives gathered. It was great for contacts, but no thinking was done.

Congressmen, especially senior ones, routinely had an AA, Administrative Assistant or Head of Staff, and some LAs, Legislative Assistants. John Ashbrook’s AA left and was not replaced after I got there. He also did not replace his LA.

My salary was paid by the Committee. Not many AAs wanted me in their office after John died.

I could handle a concern John had in a few minutes which others could talk to death, bragging about how much time they spent “talking to the congressman.” To someone who thinks the way I though and the way you have learned to think, the time with your representative is exactly what you are there to MINIMIZE.

People ask me if I talked to Reagan.

No way. What was needed, I supplied. I remade his whole first presidential campaign with one short statement to Bill Rusher. But if I had been using up the President’s time face-to-face, I would have been a nervous wreck during that time.

This is the way YOU now think, but it is so natural to you that you have no idea how powerful a thing it is.
Most of you have an idea how powerful this kind of THINKING is. You underestimate it grossly.

In fact, if you want to see that power, one of the commenters on the last article suggested you look up the term “anti-white” on a search engine!

I have unleashed something on the world that is better than the world deserves and more powerful than most of you, much less the AMPWs, can imagine.