What is a Republican

WHAT IS A REPUBLICAN?
Here is what the Republican Party stands for:
1) We know that government is incompetent, inefficient and or irresponsible in most matters. We want to limit government's role in our lives to the protection of our unalienable rights.
2) We know and trust the free-market. We believe in its ability to bring prosperity and wealth. We know that the free-market will allow the hard-working to prosper so long as government does not procure the fruits of their labor. We believe that an unencumbered free-market can restore economic vitality.
3) We believe that it is our responsibility to help our fellow man, not as a collective, but as millions of individuals acting independent of government. We believe that a job is the best social work we can offer our fellow man.
4) We believe in God. We recognize that without God anything goes. Without God we lose objectivity and we become a subjective society. This is a strong distinction that we have from Democrats. We know that God's Law is Natural Law and that it is the basis of our Constitution.
Thou Shalt not Covet, Thou Shalt not Steal are fundamental to our God and to the success that America has experienced since its inception.
This God-fearing Republican philosophy should allow us to communicate with the very people who hate us most; the poor. They too are strong believers. It is this group that we have ignored for as long as I have been politically active. This is the group that repays us for our disconnect by universally voting against us. This is the group that rightly concludes that Republicans are the party of the rich, since they are clearly not the party of the poor. But this is also the group on which Socialism has been tried; and it has failed like Socialism has failed everywhere and anytime it has been tried. The poor have lived in poverty for so long that they will testify to the failure of the Socialist's efforts. We must engage them and encourage them to tell us their stories.
5) Republicans believe that the American dream is available to those who work hard. We must lead the poor to the American dream.
6) Republicans are repulsed by the injustice of income redistribution and we must vigorously fight to end it. Republicans believe that the Law just like Justice must be blind. Republicans believe that we are all created equal and must all be treated equally.
7) Republicans believe that lowering taxes and reducing government interference will optimize the economy and, by extension, increase prosperity.
8) Republicans must believe that to behave differently means that we are open to the charge of hypocrisy. Success will be measured by how many voters we can convince to join our cause. Republicans must better understand why conservatism works and socialism fails.