Republican Principles ...

Republican Values ... 

... Republican Policies

R We believe individuals should be held accountable for their own actions.

R We realize that by removing the consequences from individuals’ bad decisions, only more bad decisions will result. 

R We believe good policy requires that government be held accountable for its actions.

R Reagan was right:  "The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other." 

R We believe the fruits of your labor should be yours to keep. 

R We believe the best possible welfare program is a job.

R We recognize there is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.  

R We observe that any government that robs Peter to pay Paul will always enjoy the support of Paul.

R We know that most of us are wholly incompetent at other people’s jobs, and therefore recognize the inherent danger in politicians dictating what doctors, bankers, and entrepreneurs must do.  

R We believe that local control of local issues, such as education, is superior to a Soviet-style, centralized government model.

R We are vigilant in defending individual rights, and shun the notion of trading those rights for some “collectivist” good. 

R We believe future generations will curse us if we so casually cast-aside the liberties our forefathers fought so valiantly to provide us.

R We believe our courts should be used to resolve genuine conflicts rather than to redistribute wealth via a “legal lottery”. 

R We reject utilitarian theories supporting the redistribution of wealth via excessive taxation.

R We know that the American Republic will survive only until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. 

R We work for equality of opportunity; we refuse to accept a forced equality of outcomes. 

R We accept that some truths are indeed black & white; we do not deal in moral relativism. 

R We acknowledge that government is often bad, but at the same time recognize that it can be good.

R We agree that for every action, there is unfortunately an equal and opposite government program. 

R We realize the phrase “the liberal media” is redundant.

R We know you cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.  

R We understand you cannot help the poor by destroying the rich, you cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer, you cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income, you cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence, and you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. 

R We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. 

R We know that a liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

R We understand that democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

R We recognize that foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

R We accept that government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. 

R We know that Reagan was right: "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:  If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

R We know that if you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

R We see that, in general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. 

R We fear that no man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

R We understand that the ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. 

R We conclude that government should be kept in its proper place:  Small, local, accountable, and at the distant margins of our lives.   

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