Conservatives are the heirs to the Founders' vision. But we have to act like it.
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As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington.
At times, conservatives become defined by their volume rather than by their ideas.
Some want to rebrand the GOP, but they will never rebrand conservatives.
We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.
At the end of the day, every member of the conservative movement, from our political commentators and thinkers to our elected officials, share an important and common purpose in advancing the cause of liberty, reigning in a bloated federal government, and defending our traditional family values.
To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.
The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.