FRANK GAFFNEY: GOP’s Job #1? – Townhall.com
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
GOP’s Job #1?
by Frank Gaffney
One of the most influential conservatives in America this weekend gave a sneak peek at a soon-to-be-published book he has written calling for a “New Republican Party.” (The ground rules of the meeting were off the record; the book will be out soon, though, so stay tuned for much more about it.) The author underscored that for the sort of improved GOP we need, “national security must be Job #1.”
Unfortunately, as noted in this space two weeks ago, it seems that for a some prominent Republican/conservatives, to paraphrase the “Open Borders” crowd, national security is a job Americans don’t want to do anymore.
Consider the scant and mostly euphemistic treatment of the issue in the new Conservative Action Project manifesto dubbed the Mount Vernon Statement, released with much fanfare on February 17. Not particularly objectionable, but a pale comparison to the principled and robust opposition to the totalitarian ideology of the day, Soviet Communism, enunciated fifty years before by William F. Buckley, Jr. and other founders of the modern conservative movement in America.
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