Thread: Conservative Leaders to Unveil Mount Vernon "Manifesto

Leaders expect to unveil the "Mount Vernon Statement" Wednesday at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia

Tuesday February 16, 2010

Conservative Leaders to Unveil Mount Vernon "Manifesto"

By Kathleen Gilbert

Correction: This article originally stated that the Mount Vernon Statement would be signed on Wednesday at the Mount Vernon Estate. This was incorrect. The Mount Vernon Estate is not associated with the document. Instead the document was signed at Collingwood Library and Museum. We apologize for the error.

MOUNT VERNON, Virginia, February 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Prominent conservative leaders announced this week the advent of a new manifesto defending conservative Constitutional values against left-wing political trends - and rooting those values in God, natural law, and human virtue.

Leaders expect to unveil the "Mount Vernon Statement" Wednesday at Collingwood Library and Museum in Alexandria, Virginia. The statement, they say, is modelled off the Sharon Statement, a landmark document widely considered to have helped launch the modern conservative movement in the 1960s.

The leaders who drafted the statement include: Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulner, Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, former Attorney General Edwin Meese, Media Research Center leader Brent Bozell, ConservativeHQ.com chairman Richard Viguerie, and American Conservative Union chairman David Keene, among others.

An excerpt of the Mount Vernon statement the leaders released in advance reads:

"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 document concludes that the true change needed "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," it states.

"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 signing of the statement at Collingwood Library Wednesday was scheduled to coincide with the beginning of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest national gathering of conservatives, which will open the following day in the nation's capital.

Meese characterized the goal of the document as "reminding 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 in the world," reports Politico.

American Spectator Publisher Alfred Regnery, another drafter, said the document was also intended to respond to the notion that the conservative movement "needs to become more mainstream." "This was a reaction to that to some extent, that we thought we could stick to our guns pretty well," he said.

According to The American Spectator's W. James Antle, the conservative framework proposed by the document is also intended to "[inform] conservatism's firm defense of family, neighborhood, community, and faith."

Former Congressman David McIntosh, a leading participant in the Conservative Action Project, told TAS that the leaders hope the document will help sharpen the principles that already unite grassroots conservative activity in America. Such activity has become eminently visible in the enormous Tea Party movement, which sprung up spontaneously over the past year in opposition to the big-government policies of the Obama administration.

"We're hoping this will be picked up by the Tea Party activists as a framework," said McIntosh. "To have an impact, it must come from the people."

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/feb/10021608.html

Anything Grover Norquist or Tony Perkins has to do with needs to be summarily rejected. These are political hacks lining their pockets through these phony 501 C 3 "charities" sucking blood out of our treasury running their little phony "charity" organizations that are really radical if not subversive political action committees and doing so in violation of US tax law and the US Constitution, enriching themselves with tax-exempt "contributions" underwritten by US taxpayers. Look in the US Constitution and tell me WHERE it says that dregs like Grover Norquist and Tony Perkins can solicit tax-exempt contributions from their PayPals that reduces our Treasury by almost $400 billion a year, siphons off $1.3 Trillion of our GDP, $2 Trillion in assets, and 15 million employees out of our private sector to this Phony "Charity" Nothing Sector?

For these turds to be rattling around about Constitutional intent would be laughable if it weren't so utterly and deplorably TRAGIC.

These usurpers are not one bit different than ACORN. They operate the same way, breaking the same laws, stealing the same money, doing it for the same reason, to bankrupt the United States so they can all live in $2 million homes in the DC suburbs doing "charity" while illegal aliens mow their yards, clean their houses, tend their gardens and nanny their kids and American Unemployed Workers scrape their closets looking for dropped change to pay their utility bill.

They make me want to puke. Not one of these butt-holes has a real job doing real work with a real company. So they can take their "manifesto" and stick it where the sun don't shine.



Pass the FairTax and Shut Them Down.

www.fairtax.org

Grover Norquist = Islamic Free Market Institute and American Muslim Council!



"In addition to heading Americans for Tax Reform, Norquist serves on the board of numerous organizations. He is former chairman of the Islamic Free Market Institute. Norquist was a co-founder of the Merritt Group, later renamed Janus-Merritt Strategies, whose clients included international companies, Indian gaming interests, the government of Pakistan and the government of Gabon, and the American Muslim Council. Norquist has also represented American Express and Microsoft.[20][21]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist