ConstiPERVatives sign historic Mt. Vernon Statement of 'Principles' (you can sign it too!)

Dips Hit of Bucksnot, TN just signed it.

http://www.themountvernonstatement.com/

:insert smiley holding nose:

The Mount Vernon Statement

Constitutional Conservatism: A Statement for the 21st Century
We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding. Through the Constitution, the Founders created an enduring framework of limited government based on the rule of law. They sought to secure national independence, provide for economic opportunity, establish true religious liberty and maintain a flourishing society of republican self-government.

These principles define us as a country and inspire us as a people. They are responsible for a prosperous, just nation unlike any other in the world. They are our highest achievements, serving not only as powerful beacons to all who strive for freedom and seek self-government, but as warnings to tyrants and despots everywhere.
Each one of these founding ideas is presently under sustained attack. In recent decades, America’s principles have been undermined and redefined in our culture, our universities and our politics. The selfevident 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.

The conservatism of the Declaration asserts self-evident truths based on the laws of nature and nature’s God. It defends life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It traces authority to the consent of the governed. It recognizes man’s self-interest but also his capacity for virtue.

The conservatism of the Constitution limits government’s powers but ensures that government performs its proper job effectively. It refines popular will through the filter of representation. It provides checks and balances through the several branches of government and a federal republic.

A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a threat to moral self-government, and national security conservatives that energetic but responsible government is the key to America’s safety and leadership role in the world.
A Constitutional conservatism based on first principles provides the framework for a consistent and meaningful policy agenda.

» It applies the principle of limited government based on the
rule of law to every proposal.
» It honors the central place of individual liberty in American
politics and life.
» It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and
economic reforms grounded in market solutions.
» It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom
and opposing tyranny in the world and prudently considers what we can and should do to that
end.
» It informs conservatism’s firm defense of family, neighborhood,
community, and faith.
If we are to succeed in the critical political and policy battles ahead, we must be certain of our purpose.

We must begin by retaking and resolutely defending the high ground of America’s founding principles.

February 17, 2010


Edwin Meese, former U.S. Attorney General under President Reagan

Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America

Edwin Feulner, Jr., president of the Heritage Foundation

Lee Edwards, Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at the Heritage Foundation, was present at the Sharon Statement signing.

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council

Becky Norton Dunlop, president of the Council for National Policy

Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center

Alfred Regnery, publisher of the American Spectator

David Keene, president of the American Conservative Union

David McIntosh, co-founder of the Federalist Society

T. Kenneth Cribb, former domestic policy adviser to President Reagan

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform

William Wilson, President, Americans for Limited Government

Elaine Donnelly, Center for Military Readiness

Richard Viguerie, Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com

Kenneth Blackwell, Coalition for a Conservative Majority

Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring

Kathryn J. Lopez, National Review



We the undersigned join in our support of the guiding principles of The Mount Vernon Statement.

Current count: more than 4,000 signers.

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And what a load of crap.

"It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life."

Unless you have a uterus or are a homosexual.

What a steaming pile of hypocrisy. AND KEEP YOUR FREAKING "FAITH" GARBAGE OUT OF MY GOVERNMENT! What about those of us who want freedom FROM religion? We're just worthless heathens unfit to breathe free air, right?

:puke: :puke: :puke:

Annoyed as hell,

Diane

Anishnabe in MI

The conservative movement unites - conservapedia:



On edit: Actually that's Faux news - linked to from consevapedia.

I wonder if the teabaggers will be impressed.

I'm against those principles.

selfishly opposite to those words.
"The conservatism of the Declaration asserts self-evident truths based on the laws of nature and nature’s God. It defends life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It traces authority to the consent of the governed. It recognizes man’s self-interest but also his capacity for virtue."
Laws of nature and nature's God - their nature is that which is red of tooth and claw. Predator and prey. Punishment. Disciplane...
They believe in defending their own life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, not that of those who are too weak, sick, or not wealthy enough to count.
Consent of the "governed" - I wonder how they define "governed". It seems to mean "privileged". Their Declaration is apparently for those declaring Independence from the general population because they're apparently, what? Better, smarter, richer than 90% of the people living, working, and dying in the United States of America?
And they certainly recognize self-interest, but capacity for virtue? Throwing a few coins and crumbs to the peasants, or occasionally allowing one or two to rise to a comfortable level of existence apparently counts for a capacity for virtue.

Nice words. And in some ways, commendable words. But pretty words cannot hide ugly actions.

Haele

:rofl:

As well as Grover "Casino" Norquist.

Apple pie and ice cream can win the battle of ideas.