- Value [1] Limited Government
- As much as at any time in recent history, America needs a strong, vibrant party on the right to speak for the civilizing ideal
of limited government. Barack Obama has put in place an agenda of unreconstructed progressivism that is at war, not only with
Reaganism, but also with Clintonism. He has exacerbated a massive fiscal imbalance, added a poorly designed entitlement that
further destabilizes the health sector, and sounded an uncertain trumpet of global leadership. If Republicans urgently need
to recalibrate, and they do, it is because the stakes are so high.
- Value [2] Intellectual Honesty
- Among some party loyalists, there is a natural tendency to maintain that the GOP is simply suffering from a "communications
problem," that if only Republicans spoke more loudly, more insistently, and with greater purity and passion, they would broaden
their appeal and proceed to sweep national elections. But that counsel, appealing as it might be to a shrinking segment of
the electorate, is surely not adequate to present circumstances. More is needed than pumping up the volume. Intellectual honesty
is the first requirement of self-renewal. Republican problems are not superficial or transient.
- Value [3] Creativity
- For the GOP to revivify itself and enlarge its appeal, Republicans at every level will have to think creatively even as they
remain within the boundaries of their core principles. In particular, five steps are necessary, each in the realm of a pressing
national need.
- Value [4] Life
- Value [5] Liberty
- Value [6] Conservation
- Value [7] Correction
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