Celebrating Fifty Years of the Phyllis Schlafly Report: We Want “Pledges Kept,” Not “Promises Broken”

The Constitution of the United States serves many purposes in our republic. One of the main advantages of a written constitution is that it protects Americans from the whims of changing elected officials. A written constitution gives us an anchor on which to base our expectations for our federal government. Similarly, the long-lost art of the party platform should be an anchor by which we place reasonable expectations on elected officials of a political party. If the party claimed by a politician is conservative, it is a reasonable expectation that the politician himself should be conservative. Phyllis Schlafly turned this concept from analogy to reality with her June and September 1971 Phyllis Schlafly Reports. When an elected official turns his back on the party platform he campaigned on, he puts himself at incredible risk of alienating his voting base.

February: Month of Important Birthdays

**Previously recorded by Phyllis Schlafly**

February is the month when we observe the birthdays of our most important presidents: the greatest president of the 18th century, George Washington; the greatest president of the 19th century, Abraham Lincoln; and the greatest president of the 20th century, Ronald Reagan. Today, on Ronald Reagan’s birthday, let’s recall why he is so important.