Conservative Values

Bolstering America's Security, Prosperity, and Families

Conservatism means something different to every conservative. During liberalism's heyday in the 1960s and '70s, conservatives slowly united around a core set of principles, anti-communism, fiscal restraint, and cultural traditionalism chief among them. While Southern Baptist homemakers and the Wall Street industrialists and Midwestern Catholic factory workers had little in common, they each in their own way came to view liberalism as a threat to their own pursuits of happiness.

In time, these and other culturally disparate groups came to form Ronald Reagan's majority coalition, and, half a generation later, the Republican Congressional constituency. Once the Cold War had been won, taxes and spending brought under greater control, and the excesses of political correctness beaten back, however, the bonds that held our coalition together began to wear.

The ongoing presidential campaign and lingering frustrations about the Democrat takeover of Congress in 2006 have further frayed conservative cohesion. And now, according to the mainstream media, the old conservative coalition is cracking up, as security, economic, and cultural conservatives go their separate ways.

CCM offers a different perspective. After all, our internal friction has always been a creative, rather than a destructive, force. Our agenda may be diverse, but our vision has never been more united. The issues have changed, but our ideals have not: we still want a smaller government leading a freer nation, with respect both to the values that made first us global leaders and the responsibilities that come with global leadership. We want few laws passed but all laws enforced. We want a nation great because she is good.

Conservatives believe that security without prosperity is fleeting and that prosperity without security is impossible. We believe the family - rather than the group or the consumer - is the basic unit of society and civilization and that government as such has a special responsibility to protect our families, and in particular our children from all enemies: foreign, domestic, or judicial.

CCM will drive a broad agenda across these touchstones - Security, Prosperity, and Family - informing, inspiring, and activating conservatives to unite around a common vision and common destiny.