Rush Limbaugh was right in his Wall Street Journal Opinion article, "We believe in individual liberty, limited government, capitalism, the rule of law, faith, a color-blind society and national security. We support school choice, enterprise zones, tax cuts, welfare reform, faith-based initiatives, political speech, homeowner rights and the war on terrorism. And at our core we embrace and celebrate the most magnificent governing document ever ratified by any nation--the U.S. Constitution. Along with the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes our God-given natural right to be free, it is the foundation on which our government is built and has enabled us to flourish as a people. "
I think he should add we are strong environmentalist.
As conservatives we must have candidates to run on these issues and here are answers to how and why they should be accomplished.
1. Aggressively pursue the war on terrorism.
The agenda for such a movement should include the following activities and efforts.
- investigate radical mosques
- support anti-Islamofascist freedom fighters
- thwart attempts to impose Sharia law
- form an anti-Islamofascist publishing network
- create an anti-Islamofascist portal on the Internet
- establish an anti-Islamofascist speakers bureau
- wage an ideological assault on Islamofascism
- support efforts to evangelize Muslims in Europe and the Middle East
- create a global anti-Islamofascist coalition
- reframe the illegal immigration issue as one of national security
- end dependence on foreign oil that's funding the Islamofascists.
- We need a serious dialogue -- not knee-jerk hysteria -- about the 1st Amendment, what it protects and what it should not protect. Here are a few baseline principles to consider:
- We should propose a Geneva-like convention for fighting terrorism that makes very clear that those who would fight outside the rules of law, those who would use weapons of mass destruction and those who would target civilians are in fact subject to a totally different set of rules that allow us to protect civilization by defeating barbarism before it gains so much strength that it is truly horrendous. A subset of this convention should define the international rules of engagement on what activities will not be protected by free speech claims; and
- We need an expeditious review of current domestic law to see what changes can be made within the protections of the 1st Amendment to ensure that free speech protection claims are not used to protect the advocacy of terrorism, violent conduct or the killing of innocents.The most effective form of counterterrorism fights not the terrorists but the ideas that motivate them.
- This strategy involves two main steps.
First, defeat the Islamist movement just as the fascist and communist
movements were defeated - on every level and in every way, making use
of every institution, public and private. This task falls mainly on
non-Muslims, Muslim communities being generally incapable or unwilling
to purge their own.
In contrast, only Muslims can undertake the second step, the formulation and spread of an Islam that is modern, moderate, democratic, liberal, good-neighborly, humane, and respectful of women. Here, non-Muslims can help by distancing themselves from Islamists and supporting moderate Muslims.
We should be allowed to close down websites that recruit suicide bombers and provide instructions to indiscriminately kill civilians by suicide or other means, or advocate killing people from the West or the destruction of Western civilization;
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