Probably the most prominent American political consultant, Dick Morris is almost universally credited with piloting Bill Clinton to a stunning comeback re-election victory in 1996 after the president lost Congress to the Republican two years before. Called "the most influential private citizen in America" by Time Magazine Morris helped steer Clinton to the center and away from the liberal policies he had pursued in his first two years in office. Morris is also credited with advising Clinton to sign the welfare reform bill of 1996 and getting him to back a balanced budget, both key centrist positions.

Morris began his relationship with Clinton in 1977 when he handled the Arkansas Attorney General's successful campaign to become the youngest Governor in the nation. Morris did not work on Clinton's defeat for re-election in 1980 but did oversee his comeback victory in 1982 as well as his Arkansas re -election victories in 1984, 86, and 1990.

In addition to Clinton, Morris has handled the winning campaigns for more than 30 Senators or Governors.

In recent years, Morris has turned to foreign campaigns and served as chief strategist for Mexico's reformer Vicente Fox in his upset victory in July, 2000 over the PRI after the party had ruled the nation for 71 years. He also was the strategist behind Felipe Calderon’s victory in Mexico in 2006. He was the chief strategist for the winning campaigns for the Presidents or Prime Ministers in Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Taiwan, Japan, Romania, and Ukraine.

In the United States, Morris has become a familiar figure as a commentator for the Fox News Channel. He is well known for hard hitting, nonpartisan, objective commentary about the U.S. political scene. He writes a weekly column for the New York Post and another for the Hill Magazine in Washington DC.

He has written twelve books including eight New York Times bestsellers. His most recent best seller, written with his wife, Eileen McGann, Catastrophe, debuted on the New York Times best seller list as number one. The other best sellers are: Behind the Oval Office (his memoir about the Clinton years), Off With Their Heads (about the war on terror), Rewriting History (a biography of Hillary Clinton he wrote with his wife, Eileen McGann), Because He Could (about Bill Clinton also with Eileen), and Condi vs. Hillary (promoting Condoleezza Rice for president written with Eileen) and Outrage (essays about rip-offs in America with Eileen), and Fleeced (which warned of the disaster Obama would bring). His other books are: Power Plays, Vote.com, The New Prince, and Bum Rap on American Cities which he wrote in the 70s.

He lives with his wife of 33 years, Eileen McGann in Florida.

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Phyllis Schlafly has been a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. She has been a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when she started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle Forum, a national organization of citizens who participate as volunteers in the public policymaking process. It maintains offices on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and in Alton, Illinois. She is also the founder and president of Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, a think-tank which has its national headquarters at the Eagle Forum Education Center in St. Louis. In a ten-year battle, Mrs. Schlafly led the pro-family movement to victory over the principal legislative goal of the radical feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment. An articulate and successful opponent of the radical feminist movement, she appears in debate on college campuses more frequently than any other conservative. She was named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by the Ladies' Home Journal. Mrs. Schlafly's monthly newsletter called The Phyllis Schlafly Report is now in its 42nd year. Her syndicated column appears in 100 newspapers, her radio commentaries are heard daily on 500 stations, and her radio talk show on education called "Eagle Forum Live" is heard weekly on 75 stations. Mrs. Schlafly is a lawyer and served as a member of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 1985-1991, appointed by President Reagan. She has testified before more than 50 Congressional and State Legislative committees on constitutional, national defense, and family issues. Mrs. Schlafly is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington University, received her J.D. from Washington University Law School, and received her Master's in Political Science from Harvard University. In 2008 Washington University - St. Louis awarded Phyllis an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.

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Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway is CEO and President of the polling company™, inc. a privately-held, woman-owned corporation founded in 1995. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC and maintains an office in New York City. Mrs. Conway is one of the most quoted and noted pollsters on the national scene.

Among her accomplishments, she was recognized as the most accurate predictor of the 2004 elections and received The Washington Post's "Crystal Ball" award and co-author of WHAT WOMEN REALLY WANT: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live (Free Press, 2005). The book has met with critical acclaim for its ability to distill complex data into memorable message points, acronyms, and phrases.

Throughout her 20-year qualitative and quantitative research career, Kellyanne has provided primary research and advice for clients in 46 of the 50 states and has directed hundreds of demographic and attitudinal survey projects for statewide and congressional political races, trade associations, and Fortune 100 companies. A professionally trained moderator, Kellyanne has personally directed more than 300 focus groups and other qualitative discussions. Clients have included Lifetime Television, The Heritage Foundation, Major League Baseball, The Federalist Society, Coalition of Community Pharmacists Association, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Mass Connections, American Express, ABC News, and the U.S. Department of Labor.

A "fully-recovered" attorney, Kellyanne is admitted to practice law in four jurisdictions (Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia). She has practiced law, clerked for a judge in Washington, DC and for four years, was an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law Center. Kellyanne is a magna cum laude graduate of Trinity College, Washington, D.C., where she earned a B.A. in Political Science, studied at Oxford University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She holds a law degree, with honors, from George Washington University Law Center.

Kellyanne has provided commentary on over 1,200 television shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, HBO, Comedy Central, MTV and the Fox News Channel, and countless radio shows and print stories. Kellyanne has been profiled in over a dozen magazines, newspapers, and television programs. Her polling data and op-eds have been published by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Post, The Washington Times, USA Today, National Review, Human Events, Investors' Business Daily, and Campaigns and Elections.

She is the Editor and Publisher of WomanTrends Online, a web-based publication that provides the latest news on a multitude of current and prospective lifestyle, financial, health, ethnic, work, entertainment, green, technological, and generational trends, which are influencing and influenced by consumer attitudes and behaviors. WomanTrend, a division of the polling company, inc., analyzes over 50 national and international publications and compiles the findings into WomanTrends Online.

She is a board member of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, the National Journalism Center, the National Women's History Museum, and Men Against Breast Cancer and past member of the University of San Francisco School of Business Advisory Council. Mrs. Conway retains memberships in the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the Qualitative Research Consultants Association (QRCA).

Kellyanne (formerly "Fitzpatrick") is a native of South Jersey. She is married to George T. Conway III and they have four children.

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With his daily access to the White House as a correspondent, Mr. Gizzi offers readers the inside scoop in his weekly politics column and Gizz-ette blog. The man who knows everyone in Washington got his start at Human Events in 1979 after graduating from Fairfield University in Connecticut and then working for the Travis County (Tex.) Tax Assessor.

Mr. Gizzi has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs, including those on C-SPAN, America's Voice, and Talk America, and is also a frequent contributor to the BBC. He is a past president of the Georgetown Kiwanis Club, past member of the St. Matthew's Cathedral's Parish Council, and secretary of the West End Friends of the Library. He is a recipient of the William A. Rusher Award for Journalistic Excellence and was named Journalist of the Year by the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2002.

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Pat Toomey, 45, is the President and CEO of the Club for Growth, America's leading limited-government, free-enterprise advocacy group.

Before joining the Club for Growth, Mr. Toomey served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, from Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district, for three terms, from January 1999 through January 2005. Mr. Toomey distinguished himself as one of Congress's leading advocates for limited government and personal freedom. He served on the Budget Committee, the Financial Services Committee and the Small Business Committee.

In 2005, Mr. Toomey co-founded Team Capital Bank, now operating in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. He co-chairs the Board of Directors.

Mr. Toomey also serves on the Board of Directors of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Bradley Foundation is devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles, and values that sustain and nurture it. Mr. Toomey also serves on the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Foundation.

Prior to his service in Congress, Mr. Toomey co-founded, owned and operated four very successful, original-concept restaurants and bars in Allentown and Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

His first career was in investment banking from 1984 through 1991. He helped develop and manage a $21 billion derivatives trading operation for Morgan Grenfell Finance, Inc. in New York, supervising sales and trading operations in New York, London and Tokyo.

Mr. Toomey attended La Salle Academy in Providence, RI and graduated from Harvard University, cum laude, with a degree in government.

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Since his remarkable election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1992, Sam Rohrer has been one of the leading voices for state government reform and family-affirming public policies. His outspoken support for constitutional principles has been the hallmark of his public service. More than opposing negative public policies, Sam has been a champion for consensus-building public policy alternatives and solutions.

The son of a union steelworker, Sam strongly advocates issues that impact working families. By promoting the role of parents in their children’s education, opposing tax increases on employees and workers, and crafting landmark legislation to eliminate school property taxes, Sam continues to build broad bipartisan coalitions on a range of important issues.

During his tenure on the House Education Committee, Sam authored the historic Education Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) scholarship. To date, some 33,000 Pennsylvania students have been empowered to attend private or enhanced public school programs because of the initiative.

Sam and his family’s love of the outdoors fuels a passion to improve the stewardship of Pennsylvania’s natural resources. As the Republican chairman of the Game and Fisheries Committee, he was an outspoken proponent of commonsense conservation policies that respect private property and protects the rights of tens of thousands of hunters and anglers. Because of his uncompromising support for Second Amendment freedoms he has earned the consistent backing of sportsmen and gun owners.

In 2007, Sam was appointed to the Speaker’s Commission on Government Reform, which brought new levels of transparency and accountability to the state legislature. In his current role as Republican chairman of the House Finance Committee, he continues to argue for strong, structural limits on state government taxes and spending.

In recent months, Sam has been leading opposition to the explosive growth of federal spending, regulations and unconstitutional mandates in Pennsylvania. This year, he led an effort to pass the “10th Amendment Resolution,” challenging the expanded reach of the federal government in areas ranging from healthcare to education.

Sam and his wife Ruth Ann are the parents of six children and three grandchildren. The Rohrer family considers their commitment to faith and family as their highest priorities.

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In 2004, Tom Corbett was elected to serve as Pennsylvania's chief law enforcement officer, the Attorney General. In November 2008 he won reelection in a decisive fashion, drawing strong bipartisan support for the office's ongoing mission to make this Commonwealth a safer better place for families to live, work and raise a family.

When first running for the office, Corbett identified four pressing problems threatening Pennsylvania's communities. Once elected, General Corbett quickly addressed these issues by developing and creating the following programs: 1.) a Child Predator Unit to capture Internet predators before they have a chance to prey on our children, with 244 convicted to date; 2.) an Elder Abuse Unit to protect our senior citizens from fraud and abuse; 3.) a Public Corruption Unit to protect citizens from abuse of power and government corruption; and 4.) a dedicated commitment to fight the war on illegal drugs and gangs in our neighborhoods and to halt drug trafficking in our communities.

Tom Corbett's experience as a criminal prosecutor began in Allegheny County as Assistant

District Attorney. President Ronald Reagan appointed Corbett to be Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of PA and named him one of the first members of President Reagan's National Drug Task Force. Following several years of private law practice, President George H. W. Bush appointed Corbett to become the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. In 1995, Governor Tom Ridge selected Tom Corbett to fill the vacancy in the Attorney General's office for the duration of the term. It was not until 2004 that Corbett ran statewide for Attorney General and won both highly contested primary and general election races.

Recognized as a national leader on his balanced approach to business, General Corbett has been featured on the cover of CFO magazine. Corbett was a leader of the northeast Attorneys General through his association with the National Association of Attorneys General. He served as Chairman of the Republican Association of Attorneys General and sits on the Attorney General of the United States' Executive Working Group, an elite group of law enforcement officials from throughout the nation.

General Corbett served his country as a member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard 28th Infantry Division, rising in rank from private to captain. Corbett received his undergraduate degree from Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania; and earned his law degree at St. Mary's University Law School in San Antonio, Texas.

A life-long Pennsylvania resident, Tom married his college sweetheart, Susan. They are the proud parents of two children: Tom, a video game producer and Katherine, a prosecutor in the Philadelphia District Attorney's office.

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