Monday, January 2, 2012

Morning Bell: New Year’s Resolutions for Conservatives

The key to keeping your New Year’s resolutions is to make them more realistic. - Heritage.org

f you’re fond of the term “states’ rights,” have a soft spot for nullification, are tempted by isolationism or are wary of equality, here are four simple resolutions to begin getting right with America’s principles. Once you have these down, you can start correcting your friends and move on to other core concepts.

1. Speak of Federalism, not “States’ Rights”
States don’t have rights. People do.

2. Resist the Nullification Temptation
(P)lease don’t start talking about nullification as the magical silver bullet that other conservatives somehow overlooked in their efforts to repeal Obamacare (or any other unconstitutional law, for that matter).
Nullification is blatantly unconstitutional.

3. Isolationism is un-American

4. Equality is not a four-letter word

This and more at Heritgae.org