CommonSenseGovernment.com: The Conservative Vision
The Republican Party is in a crisis right now. It is not due to the Democrats taking over control of Congress. It has to do with losing the vision of conservatism.
If anything, Republicans lost Congress because they have lost the vision of political conservatism that Ronald Reagan brought to this country. They have allowed themselves to be cowed by the sheer amount of noise that the left has generated in attacking conservative principles. This wall of noise has fooled Republican leadership into thinking that conservatism is not popular in America, that the people want liberalism.
In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. A 2003 Gallup poll showed that 40% of Americans identified themselves as conservative, 40% said they were moderates, and 20% said they were liberal. A similar survey from the 60s showed that this percentage has not changed in the last 50 years.
So what is the conservative vision? A great place to find it is in a speech made by Ronald Reagan in 1964, referred to on the Reagan2020.us site simply as