Conservative Declaration of Independence

When, in the course of American political affairs, it becomes necessary for one group of like-minded people to dissolve the bonds connecting them with a political party, and to assume among the constituencies of American politics the separate and equal station to which their common interest and love of country entitles them, proper respect for the opinions of fellow Americans requires that they should clearly state the causes that impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be every bit self-evident as in 1776 and indeed for all of eternity, that all men and women regardless of race, creed and color are created equal and that it is every person’s unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

We believe that the American Republic, the most-noble government ever created by mankind, is such because it rests on the unyielding moral principle that every human being has the right to his or her own life, wherefore government derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.

We believe that political parties have evolved in the United States of America to unite citizens of our complex society to coalesce and elect officers of the government who represent their point of view guided by certain general principles. The eternal struggle of mankind is between individualists, self-reliant people who value their liberty in all matters and rely upon reason as their method of cognition, versus collectivists, people who covet security against life’s natural hazards, happily sacrificing their liberty and that of their fellow citizens in the name of insidious slogans that are variants of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” and who are guided primarily by their emotions. For the past century, the Democrat Party has reflected the collectivist point of view.

We believe that, when both major political parties become destructive of the proper ends of America’s individualists, it is their right to withhold their allegiance to their party of choice, to alter it or, if all else fails, to abandon it and form a new American political party that seems most likely to secure their safety and happiness.

Good sense dictates that long established political parties should not be changed for flimsy and fleeting causes. Political experience, most specifically that of conservative Republicans since 1964 has shown that, like most of mankind, they will reluctantly suffer under disappointing Republican governance, rather than risk the destructive anti-American, anti-reason, socialist tendencies of the Democrat Party.

But when a long succession of abuses and an unjustifiable loss of influence in Party policies reduce them to a position of despotic servitude to Party masters, it is their right and, in fact, their duty, to throw off such Party rule, and to provide new sentries for their future security.

The history of the present Republican Party is a history of repeated injuries and insults to conservatives, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over those who are the heart and soul of winning elections of men and women who will protect the American Republic as her Founding Fathers envisioned. In many instances, liberal Republicans have joined Democrats in a spirit of bipartisanship, which is a one-way street to enhancement of collectivist objectives. Whether done in the spirit of compromise or in shared collectivist values, the outcome has been the same. To prove this, we submit the following facts regarding the actions of Republican “moderates,” “progressives,” “country clubbers,” “neocons,” “compassionate conservatives,” and all other labels assumed in order to avoid using the more-honest and suitable label of liberal.

• They have refused to vote for laws regarding national security, economic and social matters that are the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
• They have failed to vote for laws of immediate and pressing importance, especially those pertaining to national security, unless suspended awaiting authorization of funds; and when so suspended, they too often neglect to press for sufficient funds.
• They have refused to vote for laws accommodating large districts of people without adding “earmarks,” often for local infrastructure, which is an affront to the concept of federalism and that usually violates the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• They have voted for laws that interfere with commerce and that frequently impede America’s capitalist economy.
• They have voted for laws that would grant amnesty to people, many of whom pose a threat to America’s national security, who have broken existing immigration laws by unlawfully entering the United States as their very first action upon entering our country.
• They have obstructed the administration of justice in the United States Senate by blocking the appointment of strict constructionist judges.
• They continually give aid and comfort to the corrupt United Nations, an agency that would happily subject us to its jurisdiction which is foreign to the United States Constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws, and thus implicitly giving their assent to the United Nations’ acts of pretended legislation.
• While generally supporting free-trade agreements, they have made little attempt to reduce taxes and government regulation of American businesses that often leave them at a severe disadvantage in competing against foreign businesses.
• They have continually voted to increase federal government spending with wanton disregard for authorization of such expenditures in the United States Constitution.
• They have enacted new federal programs and laws that infringe on state’s rights and continually expand the power and size of the federal government.
• In the federal legislature, they display timidity and moral cowardice by either remaining silent or by opposing attempts to eliminate or even reduce programs, especially those of the “entitlement” genre, that are not explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.
• In state legislatures, they display timidity and moral cowardice by either remaining silent or by opposing attempts to provide an alternative, such as school vouchers, to America’s woeful government schools.
• They have demeaned the intelligence of Republican voters by undermining campaigns of demonstrably superior conservative Republican candidates with disingenuous claims that the conservative cannot win and that only an inferior liberal candidate is electable.
• They have formed political action committees whose purpose is to elect liberal Republicans, often in opposition to demonstrably superior conservative Republican candidates who they often oppose with cruelty and duplicity scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of a political party in a civilized nation. The 1964 campaign of liberal Republicans versus Barry Goldwater is the quintessential example of such malice.
• They have coerced Republican candidates to rescind endorsements of conservative candidates under threat of banning them from traditional Republican Party fundraising organizations.
• They have instigated political disagreements amongst us, and have provided ammunition for the merciless Democrat Socialist Savages, whose known rule of political warfare is a mindless assault on character, civility and rationality.

Time and time again, we have attempted to reason with liberal Republicans to express our point of view and to seek reciprocation for our continued support of the Republican Party. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury, too often characterized by the statement that, because the Democrat alternative is so much worse, we “have nowhere else to go.” A political party with leadership whose character is thus marked by every act is tyrannical, and is unfit to lead.

We have repeatedly warned them of the inadvisability of their attempts to turn the clock back to the “moderate” Republican era prior to 1964 when Republicans failed in six of the preceding eight presidential elections. We have reminded them of the conservative Republican era that emerged in the aftermath of the 1964 election, an era in which Republicans prevailed in seven of the next ten presidential elections. We have also reminded them that the difference between these eras has been the emergence of an effective and highly motivated core group of conservative grass roots activists who contribute money, walk precincts, write letters and editorials, etc. We have appealed to their sense of fairness and generosity of spirit, and we have implored them by the ties of our common Party loyalty to disavow their usurpations, which would inevitably lead to our alienation. They have been deaf to the voice of justice and of our common political bonds, confident that we will labor as usual to elect liberal Republican candidates because we so detest the anti-American, socially destructive, socialist alternatives offered by the Democrat Party. We must reluctantly, but without recourse, hold liberal Republicans, as we hold the rest of mankind: enemies in war, friends in peace.

Therefore, we, the most-dedicated politically conservative citizens of the United States of America, appealing to mankind’s ability to reason for the righteousness of our intentions, do solemnly publish and declare that we are, and of right ought to be free and independent political activists; that aside from the choice to maintain registration as Republicans, we are absolved from all allegiance to the leadership of the Republican Party, and that all political connection between us and Republican Party leadership aside from registration, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent political activists, we have full power to endorse candidates of our choosing, provide financial and other support only to conservative candidates, recruit and support conservative candidates in primary elections to oppose liberal Republicans who have done us harm, contract alliances, and to do all other acts and things which independent political activists may of right do.

And for the support of this Declaration that will become effective on January 2, 2009 - the 100th anniversary of the birth of Barry Goldwater - with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, as our forefathers did in 1776 to secure America’s independence from Great Britain, we mutually pledge to each other our political lives, our campaign contributions and our sacred honor.