The Lone Tree Declaration at the Conservative Summit in Denver. I'd never heard of it.

[pampango]

It will be available for conservatives' signatures at the summit.

http://www.ccu.edu/centennial/blog/post/2010/07/02/Summit-organizers-to-propose-Lone-Tree-Declaration.aspx

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.

Interesting to see what today's conservatives are concerned about: socialism, progressivism, secular utopian illusions (?), appeasement, disarmament and fear of Muslims.

[Shandris]

1. Well they may end up getting their wish on one of those: Natural Law.

But I don't think it's the Natural Law that they're envisioning. It's the Darwinian Natural Law.

[gratuitous]

2. Wusses

They don't say they reject or that they'll resist an invasion by the Crab People. They're in cahoots! AAAAAaaaahhhh!!!!

[abbeyco]

3. The didn't get a lot of signers for it last year

and they took quite a bit of shit for it, but you know the 'true believers' - those stupid fuckers will sign anything.

I think the summit this weekend is going to lose a lot of it's luster, if it had any to begin with, if the Boner vote get cancelled again today or gets shot down.

Our local paper, The Denver Post, has a couple of threads on this con-clusterfuck and you can tell which posters will be drooling attendees, worshiping at the temple of teh stoopid.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Not a freaking syllable about Native American wisdom heritage?

Screw their phony RepubliBagger anti-American Imperialist greedy a-hole shit.

[hifiguy]

5. The only response possible is

:puke:

[saras]

6. Almost all their terms have private definitions, different than the dictionary ones

They don't mean, by such terms as

self-evident
truths
conservatives
heritage
liberty
freedom
solemn
civic
principle
corruption
responsibility
government
law
free
enterprise
private
property
traditional
family
values
sanctity
compassion
voluntarism
etc.,

what the rest of the world means when they use these words.

[Proles]

7. So even if a "utopian" society is

an illusion... don't they see no harm in at least trying to build a better society?

Oh great... I'm trying to rationalize the mind of a conservative again, despite the impossibility.