The Right Wing's new Manifesto: "Change is bad, we don't like it! It scares us!"

Last week it was reported that, on Wednesday, a large group of conservative leaders were going to unveil what they call "definitive statement" regarding the central principles of the conservative movement, to be known as "The Mount Vernon Statement."

The manifesto is scheduled to appear here tomorrow at 3 pm, but already excerpts are being floated:

"In recent decades, America's principles have been undermined and redefined in our culture, our universities and our politics. The self-evident truths of 1776 have been supplanted by the notion that no such truths exist. The federal government today ignores the limits of the Constitution, which is increasingly dismissed as obsolete and irrelevant.

"Some insist that America must change, cast off the old and put on the new. But where would this lead -- forward or backward, up or down? Isn't this idea of change an empty promise or even a dangerous deception?

"The change we urgently need, a change consistent with the American ideal, is not movement away from but toward our founding principles. At this important time, we need a restatement of Constitutional conservatism grounded in the priceless principle of ordered liberty articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wings-meaningless-manifesto

and sided with the British government. This mindeset is always yearning for the "good old days" which. of course, never existed except in their imaginations.

against Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and all the other American patriots.

No doubt about it.

They would have been Tea Partying it up in frilly wide-stance wigs.

The conservative position has ALWAYS been 'no change'

Hey Republican party, how's that workin out for ya?

People WANT change

on all sorts of issues.

And STILL are.

That said- the fearful part is correct. Cowardice is endemic among that crowd.