Robert A. George

A 1985 graduate of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, George worked for the Republican National Committee and, following the 1994 midterm elections, Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich.

Heck, let's be really crazy/dumb, why not try going to both conventions, see everything really intimately, interact with politically aware folks of my own age, learn from them?

On the one hand, a professor – or tutor, as faculty at his alma mater, St. John's College in Annapolis, are called – was married to a member of a prominent Democratic family.

He asked the tutor if he could inquire with his wife about any possible volunteer positions at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta.

Conversely, the tutor said his wife had said, alas, that the DNC volunteer slots were assigned months before and, well ... sorry.

George has written for the conservative National Review, the libertarian Reason and the liberal Huffington Post.