Secret GOP Meeting After Election

Top conservatives are planning a secret session in Virginia two weeks after the election to plot strategy, Politico’s Jonathan Martin reports in a must-read piece. The gathering will discuss how to form a “national grassroots political and policy coalition” similar to the one Republicans formed after their 1976 defeat. Martin doesn’t name names of the attendees, but says they will be a who’s who of conservatives eminences. Even if McCain manages to win the election, a source says, the group wonders how or if they could work with him. Sarah Palin “would be the conservative in the White House.”