Declaration of Independence - The New Republican Party

John Cox, Republican Candidate for President

When in the course of political events, it becomes necessary for responsible Republicans to reassert the conservative values which brought them to join the party to begin with, and to produce the political victories that will allow us to execute the conservative solutions that will effectively address our nation's challenges, a decent respect to the opinions of the party faithful requires that we should declare the causes and ideals which impel them to this Declaration.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any political party or party leadership becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the party members to challenge its leadership and, if necessary, to change such leadership; much as Ronald Wilson Reagan did, first in his challenge of a sitting president in 1976 and then in his victory in 1980, resting the foundation of his victory on such principles.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that established leadership should not be changed for light and transient causes; but when a long train of abuses and usurpations evinces a design to abandon our conservative principles and values time and again, it is our right and it is our duty, to throw off such leadership, and to provide new leadership for our future victories and policymaking. .

Such has been the patient sufferance of the party faithful; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to work to rescue their party, much as President Reagan did thirty years ago. The history of the President and Congress is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object pleasing the liberal media while abandoning our conservative ideals. To prove this, let the following facts be submitted to a candid party.

Instead of generating economic prosperity for the Iraqis after a successful invasion, the President turned over the economy to Iraqi politicians, who have squandered the goodwill of the people, failed to develop their oil resources appropriately, and failed to provide an economy worth the support and protection of their citizens, resulting in unacceptably high costs to Americans in terms of lives and treasure as well as standing in the world;

Instead of reducing government spending and our national debt, the President and Congress have spent with reckless abandon, including massive increases in discretionary and earmark spending;

Instead of enforcing the law and securing the borders from illegal entry and instead of reforming an immigration bureaucracy unable to meet the needs of US employers, the President and Congress have proposed amnesty and half measures that will not solve the problem;

Instead of making government smaller and more efficient, the President and Congress have made government bigger and more all encompassing, with such measures as No Child Left Behind, Sarbanes/Oxley and Medicare Part D;

Instead of enhancing our First Amendment rights, the President and Congress have limited them with McCain/Feingold;

Instead of using free market ideals to address the high cost of prescription drugs, such as ending international price controls, real tort reform and greater competition, the President and Congress enacted the largest entitlement expansion in 40 years, Medicare Part D, which doesn't solve the problem of high costs but instead shifts it to the government;

Instead of improving education by injecting competition and parental choice and reducing the federal role, the President and Congress vastly expanded federal funding and bureaucratic influence in education without providing meaningful parental choice to leave a failing school;

Instead of addressing the urgent need for social security reform with private investment accounts, the President and Congress allowed the problem to get worse by failing to pass this urgently needed reform;

We, the undersigned, understand that our President needs support in a time of war; however, his continued actions in variance with our principles requires us to speak up now for the future success of our party and our principles; the last thing we want is a democrat victory in 2008, but like Reagan in 1976, we believe it is best for the long term health of our party, nation, and world that we take this action now, before it is too late.

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