This is Not a Conservative Movement

Posted on Governor Sarah Palin's Website July 14, 2009
http://www.palinforamerica.com/



During the 2008 election Republican candidates touted their conservative credentials. Often, it seemed that one only had to use the phrase “conservative” to pass muster for the base of the Republican Party. By its definition, conservatism is traditionalism, it is the status quo, it is the antithesis of change. The mistake that many Republicans make is that they have relegated themselves to being so-called Conservatives.

Is America’s political memory so short that Republican values would be considered “conservative?” Sarah Palin stands for energy independence, limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty. Are these “conservative” values? Let us not forget that in their day and time our founding fathers were radicals fighting those who wanted to maintain the political status-quo; subjugation to the king. Their sense of individual rights and liberty is historically progressive when you compare alternative political systems, monarchies, empires, totalitarian states.

Republicans have forgotten their progressive roots and Democrats have cornered the market on their so-called progressive solutions for America. The Democratic Party now nearly completely in control of the Federal government, is in fact regressive, conservative, and pushing the nation back to its colonial roots; subjugation to the king, who now sits in Washington D.C. It is the Liberals who are out of the mainstream of America, it is they who want to turn over individual liberty to Federal overseers. What have we become as citizens when we allow a virtual monarch to sit in the city named after one of our great liberators?

Will we be free citizens or colonists toiling for tribute to send to Washington? It is not conservative to advocate for personal liberty or to empower the individual to achieve their own American dream. It is not conservative to advocate for strong national defense. It is not conservative to keep government limited in order to protect the rights and freedoms of the individual. It is not conservative to allow free enterprise, innovation, and creativity to drive the national economy.

These are not conservative principles, these are uniquely American principles. I urge Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who believe in these principles to stop calling themselves “conservatives” as if that label separates them from the mainstream of American society. If you agree with Sarah Palin, and advocate these principles then you’re not a conservative, you’re an American. This is not a conservative movement, this is an American movement, and one of the most progressive movements in human history. It is our duty as Americans to stand up to the disconnected political elite in Washington D.C., both Republicans and Democrats, and prevent the regression of our nation of free citizens to subjugated colonists.

I hope that Sarah Palin will be the voice of this movement. Not the conservative movement, but the American movement to restore our freedoms and liberties.