Bachmann keynotes Colorado conservative summit tonight

By Andy Birkey
Friday, July 09, 2010 at 6:37 am
Rep. Michele Bachmann. Photo: Douglas Burns

Rep. Michele Bachmann. Photo: Douglas Burns

Rep. Michele Bachmann is headed to Denver on Friday to speak at the Western Conservative Summit 2010. Organized by the Colorado Christian University, the event’s theme is “Right Turn, Right Now.” Bachmann will give a keynote address tonight and will share the stage with conservative luminaries such as Michelle Malkin, Dick Morris, Tom Tancredo and Dennis Prager.

The summit is sponsored by a number of conservative groups including Focus on the Family, The Heritage Foundation and Colorado Family Action. Attendees will be required to sign the Lone Tree Declaration, a six-point manifesto for the summit.

Here’s the declaration:

We gather as grateful Americans, on the week of Independence Day, in the shadow of the Continental Divide at Lone Tree, Colorado. Our signatures on this declaration, to which we invite others not present to add their names as well, affirm six tenets of who we are and what we stand for:

1. In our adherence to the self-evident truths of the American Founding, we are conservatives.

2. In our debt to the civilizational heritage of Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia, we are Westerners.

3. In our concern for the mounting threat to liberty, seeing freedom in the balance, we convene with solemn purpose at this Summit.

4. We seek a conservative renewal for our country through civic action that puts principle above party, resists the corruption of power, bridges intramural disagreements or rivalries, and protects an open public square centered on the nation’s Judeo-Christian core.

5. We commit ourselves unswervingly to a political and social order that upholds individual freedom and personal responsibility, limited government and the rule of law, free enterprise and private property, traditional family values and sanctity of life, compassion for the poor and voluntarism in service to others, natural law and morality, strong defense and secure borders, all in keeping with the original intent of the Constitution.

6. We reject, and will resist, the socialist temptation, transnational progressivism, secular utopian illusions, appeasement, disarmament, or capitulation to jihad and sharia.

Reminding our compatriots that with 2010 America enters a decisive decade for its survival as a free society, and appealing to God for His mercy and help, we declare our fidelity to the Spirit of 1776. To its revival we mutually pledge our solemn faith.

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Comments

8 Comments

Dennis
Comment posted July 9, 2010 @ 8:18 am

Number 5 pretty much captures the essense of the conservative movement. I’d sign it.


marcus_w71
Comment posted July 9, 2010 @ 9:10 am

Michele Bachmann Translator :

1.) This is an Evangelical Christian Nation.. (kill Lutherans and Catholics and everyone else unless they comply with MY beliefs)

2.) Kill Palestinians and Bomb Iran

3.) Liberty Good > Liberal Bad

4.) (refer to #1) I’m gonna force my religion in your face lest we round you up and bury you alive after torturing you..

5.) Replace “Individual Freedom” with “Corporate Freedom” (Republicans don’t care about Freedom and most don’t even know what the word means).. Replace “Limited Government” with “NO GOVERNMENT” .. (Plutocracy is our New Government, our Democratic Republic is dead).. Replace the words “Rule of Law” with “Marshall Law” and or “Corporate Anarchy”.. Replace “Sanctity of Life” and “Morality” with “Endless War” and “Forced Religion” Replace the word “Volunteerism” with “Slavery”.(Corporations love free labor)

6.)The word Social is equal to the word Jihad.. Join my Church of Evangelical Corporations and Saudi Oil Billionaires ..


Dennis
Comment posted July 9, 2010 @ 12:37 pm

Notice how marcus has to make stuff up in an attempt to rebut this because he can’t on its face.


marcus_w71
Comment posted July 9, 2010 @ 2:05 pm

Dennis! What I say is ALL true.. These Republican Trolls keep throwing out words like “Liberty” “Freedom” “Warm Apple Pie” and “Screamin’ Eagle” without even backing up or explaining WHAT THE HELL they are even talking about.. I believe in Liberty Freedom and the American way too (I prefer coconut cream pie over apple pie but I’m a communist remember?) .. Republicans use words like this so that Dwindling base of Ted Nugent fans get all riled up..


jonerik
Comment posted July 9, 2010 @ 9:26 pm

marcus w71: forget asking for explanation. Either you are insane or you are not and therefore cannot hear their dog whistles. From my casual observation so far in my neck of the Sixth District, fewer voters are hearing Bachmann’s dog whistle. I see fewer signs on the lawns of otherwise Republican supporters. Bachmann will still probably squeak by in the election thanks to Big Bob Anderson the “independent” candidate who fools no one other than the ten percent who will vote for him into believing he was not put up to running by Karl Rove or Bachmann.


Zera Lee
Comment posted July 10, 2010 @ 6:49 pm

I see a lot of empty, biased words and feel-good partisan slogans.

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
- Sinclair Lewis


marcus_w71
Comment posted July 11, 2010 @ 11:55 am

jonerik: I hate those spoiler “Independents”(wayward republicans) .. I walked in the 6th for Mr.O in 2007 and was actually surprised .. Outside being called a Commie and babykiller there were ALOT of people in Ramsey that double breasted voted.. ie. [Franken/ McCain] or [Coleman/ Obama].. Hopefully Michele’s Dog Whistles fall on deaf ears this time around.. Do you have I.R.V. in the sixth yet??


jonerik
Comment posted July 11, 2010 @ 8:11 pm

If you were called a Commie and a babykiller, you know the mindset of people in the Sixth. Somebody called me a “commie” at Bachmann’s so-called townhall meeting in Lake Elmo last fall. The one where she bussed in a lot of her supporters to shout down (unsuccessfully as it turned out) the vocal opposition.

Of course, they don’t know the difference between a “Commie”, a fascist or a socialist so Bachmann is easily able to dissimulate her true fascist beliefs. I’m afraid there is no I.R.V. anywhere in Minnesota although there was some talk of it in the recent Minneapolis and St. Paul city elections. I can only hope and wish the independent voters who are obviously smart enough not to vote for Bachmann are also smart enough to figure out that Bachmann is not the better of two evils.


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