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President's Page
Letter from the President
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Recently, many pundits have many opinions about Republican branding, messaging,
principles, etc. Here's one of the best written examples of how we can define
and focus on our conservative principles. This quote is from George Wills'
Foreword in Barry Goldwater - The Conscience of a Conservative, which was
originally published in 1960:
"Perhaps we suffer from an
over-sensitivity to the judgments of those who rule the mass communications
media. We are daily consigned by "enlightened" commentators to political
oblivion: Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. The charge is preposterous
and we ought boldly to say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have no
date-line. The principles on which the Conservative political position is based
have been established by a process that has nothing to do with the social,
economic and political landscape that changes from decade to decade and from
century to century. These principles are derived from the nature of man, and
from the truths that God has revealed about His creation. Circumstances do
change. So do the problems that are shaped by circumstances. But the principles
that govern the solution of the problems do not. To suggest that the
Conservative philosophy is out of date is akin to saying that the Golden Rule,
or the Ten Commandments or Aristotle's Politics are out of date. The
Conservative approach is nothing more or less than an attempt to apply the
wisdom and experience and the revealed truths of the past to the problems of
today. The challenge is not to find new or different truths, but to learn how
to apply established truths to the problems of the contemporary world. My hope
is that one more Conservative voice will be helpful in meeting this challenge."
Every conservative voice counts. Let's apply our conservative principles to
problems of today and of our local community and to our Republican party in
Harford County.
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