As if the contract Dick Armey took out ON America isn't enough

[Emit]

See: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7692430&mesg_id=7692430

Now we have, wait for it ...




















The Mount Vernon Manifesto!

Will these people ever just go away?

Conservative leaders {sic} gathering in Virginia Wednesday will sign on to a broad statement of principle aimed at giving a coherent framework to the grassroots energy roiling the right.

"The federal government today ignores the limits of the Constitution, which is increasingly dismissed as obsolete and irrelevant," reads a portion of the statement provided to POLITICO by its organizers. "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," says the statement, which seeks to define those principles as "Constitutional Conservatism."

The statement marks an effort by a group of leading conservatives to put their stamp on a movement that in the past year has been overtaken by a populist uprising against the Obama administration and growing federal spending, if little else.

The statement's drafters, who will sign it near George Washington's Mount Vernon home Wednesday afternoon, include figures from differing wings of the movement: former Attorney General Ed Meese, Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulner, Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, Media Research Center leader Brent Bozell, Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, direct mail guru Richard Viguerie, and David Keene, the head of the American Conservative Union, sponsor of this week's Conservative Political Action Conference, with which the signing of the "Mount Vernon Statement" is meant to coincide.

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http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=70&threadid=3693348


The 'Manifesto' can be found here, for those who can stomach it: http://www.themountvernonstatement.com/

It's a spin-off from William F. Buckley, Jr's 'Sharon Statement', signed at his home in Sharon in 1960 (!):

Meese said the statement is intended to "restate" and "update" the Sharon Statement, a 1960 manifesto of the group Young Americans for Freedom on the limits of government and evil of Communism published in William F. Buckley's National Review, which many view as a founding document of modern conservatism.

The current document is the product of meetings of the Conservative Action Project, a coalition founded immediately after the 2008 election to build cooperation among social, economic, and national security conservatives, he said.

The document will be aimed explicitly, Meese said, at "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."

The Who's Who of the Mount Vernon Manifesto includes: The proceedings will be led by former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese, senior statesman of the conservative movement. He will be joined by more than 80 national grassroots conservative leaders representing tens of millions of conservative activists including: Edwin Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation; 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; Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America; 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 and Kathryn J. Lopez, National Review and many others.

Boy, the GOP really are marketing folks big time with all these 'contracts.'

[el_bryanto]

1. It's good strategy

They aren't in power, and their only power right now is to stop or slow the Democrats. They can't literally set the agenda; even if it seems like they are. So they need to be talking about what they would do if they had power and hope that that resonates with the American people.

Bryant

[Orsino]

2. Same old strategy.

Rediscovering limited government whenever their party isn't in power.

[el_bryanto]

6. Yeah but it seems to work. n/t

[Orsino]

7. We could sell a platform of macrame, peyote and recreational sex...

...if we also had the TV pimping it for us 24/7.

[Emit]

8. lol

So true, Orsino

[av8rdave]

3. Does it not seem strange to see their sudden interest in preserving the Constitution?

Where the %$#@ were they the past decade????

[no_hypocrisy]

4. More like a hit on America.

[SpiralHawk]

5. "Dangerous deception" - End Timers code language

A way for them to pretend that someone else, other than themselves, is The Beast.

Take a look in the mirror, you Pharisees. Sheesh. Fear & hate & greed is all they got. Talk about The Beast. Ptoooey.