Constitution Party Bump!
Posted on 02/08/2004 7:35:02 PM PST by repentant_pundit
President Reagan once said: “The best vision of big government is in the rear view mirror as you’re driving away from it.”
The 2000 platform of the Republican Party, still in effect, says: "We are the party that follows its bold words with bold deeds. Since the election of 1860, the Republican Party has had a special calling — to advance the founding principles of freedom and limited government and the dignity and worth of every individual. These principles form the foundation of both an agenda for America in the year 2000 and this platform for our party."
Apparently that was all window dressing.
President George W. Bush has expanded the size of the federal government into a gross distortion of his party’s principles. The $49-billion No Child Left Behind program pours money at a system that educates the youth of America in the humanist religion. The Medicare bill passed last fall expands the role of the federal government. Modest tax cuts wilt against $15 billion AIDS packages and multi-billion space projects.
Despite President Bush’s criticism of President Clinton’s immigration policy, America’s sovereignty is under siege from moderates and liberals aiming to dissolve the nation’s borders.
U.S. forces guard the borders of Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq. Our own borders are over-run every single day.
The president has made himself accountable to the globalist Bilderbergs, and a second Bush term will champion a Union of the Americas. Bush tries to please everyone -- to win votes -- and in the end pleases no one. He sends Karl Rove to talk to pro-family groups while Marc Racicot huddles with radical leftist organizations assaulting the American family. For more than three years now, Bush has thrown a few crumbs to conservatives. Those crumbs include a solidly pro-life agenda, a positive presence at the United Nations to oppose the radical culture of death crowd, and the subduing of many terrorists around the world.
The question is whether good Bush outweighs bad Bush.
The larger question is whether or not Bush deserves the vote of conservatives. Many staunch Republicans have sworn to sit out the 2004 presidential election, in the aftermath of the Bush Temporary Worker Program announcement. Of course, Congress could squelch that plan which offers nothing short of amnesty to lawbreakers.
Looking ahead to November, conservatives will consider whether or not the success of a pseudo-conservative is their responsibility. Just as California conservatives had done last fall during a gubernatorial race in which Tom McClintock was the one true conservative candidate.
McClintock did not win the governor’s office in California, but the McClintock phenomenon lives on this year at a higher level.
Michael Anthony Peroutka, of Millersville, Md., is the Constitution Party candidate for president. He is the founder of the Institute on the Constitution, a nation-wide program teaching the principles incorporated in the Declaration of Independence. Peroutka serves on the Board of Trustees of the Conservative Caucus Research, Analysis and Education Foundation. An attorney by trade, Peroutka is a defender of life, the Constitution and the religious heritage of the United States.
The first item on Peroutka’s list of issues concerns our Creator: “The attack against the right of the people to acknowledge God is disgraceful and it is un-American. The Constitution Party is committed to an American understanding of law and government -- that rights come from God and that it is the purpose of government to secure and defend them.”
Peroutka vows to defend the families of America: “Strong families are the essential building blocks of a strong, moral, and just community. But America’s families today are under constant by federally-funded programs that are dangerous and unconstitutional. Government schools are drugging and dumbing down our children, making them dependent and compliant.”
The Constitution Party’s champion wants to restore this great Republic: “America needs and deserves a president that is willing to stand up against the entrenched socialists, elitists, and globalists who presently have a stranglehold on American political power. It is clear that both major political parties are committed to the agenda of the new world order and seek to enforce economic, military and social policies that are antithetical to the interests of the people of America.”
America can’t do education right because it can’t do education constitutionally, Peroutka says.
As president, Peroutka would secure our borders and deport those here illegally. In fact, this would be one of his top priorities.
Conservatives do not have to hold their noses in the voting booth this year. They have the opportunity to vote for a genuine conservative who will not compromise on principle. As Alan Keyes has stated, the lesser of two evils is still evil. Peroutka is the clear choice of conservatives in 2004. It is not the responsibility of conservatives to contribute to the success of candidates who do not share our views. It is AmeriConservative’s distinction to endorse Michael Anthony Peroutka for the Office of President of the United States in 2004.
Constitution Party Bump!
I am greatful to Michael Peroutka and the Constitution Party for providing this opportunity.
grateful
Bush needs to be held accountable for his usurpations on the Constitution and liberal spending which he has signed and implemented.
Rewarding illegal immigrants with legal status isn't exactly defending our borders.
Bush and the liberal Republicans would need to stick with the Constitution before getting my support. He has repeatedly proven that we can not trust him to be faithful to his oath of office.
I haven't been impressed with Bush's application of "reform" in laws like "bi-partisan campaign finance reform" which inhibit free speech, or "immigration reform" where illegal immigrants are rewarded for their lawbreaking. The spending incresaes and expansion programs aren't exactly the "reform" I was looking for, either.
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