Purpose-Driven Nation

Everything Rises and Falls on Leadership
Margaret Thatcher, a champion of free minds and markets, said that consensus it the absence of leadership.
Like Harry Truman’s “The Buck Stops Here,” the phrase “It CAN Be Done” became the working motto of Ronald Reagan’s successful administration. It was engraved on a plate on his desk in the Oval Office. Reagan and his policies unleashed the greatest economic boom in American history – and defeated the Evil Empire. Reagan proved that the phrase “It CAN Be Done” was more than words, but a powerful force. Reagan was always optimistic and happy. He dared to embrace big ideas.
Reagan also had an ethical philosophy of leadership. He said, “Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate au-thority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.”
According to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president of the United States, “Leadership is getting people to follow you.” The key to effective leadership in government is to get everyone in the “Ship of State” to row in the same direction.
John Maxwell pointed out that if people are not following a leader, he’s not leading; he’s just taking a walk. Maxwell says, “All leadership is influence.”
The majority of Evangelicals are moral and social conservatives. They want a president who is an effective leader on moral and social issues and an efficient leader when it comes to fiscal policy; a leader who has simple solutions for complex problems; a leader who has the courage to do what is morally right, even if it may not be popular.
When Evangelicals and conservatives vote for Republicans, they expect them to represent them if elected. They also expect them to fulfill the duties required by the Constitution—protect our great republic, protect our sovereignty, protect our property and hard-earned money, and protect innocent life.
Those who are sent to Washington must govern as conservatives, otherwise the grassroots value voters who gave them their support feel betrayed. Candidates who run as moral and social con-servatives cannot govern as establishment “players” consumed with materialism and personal ambition. Conservatives entrusted with an elected office cannot abandon the Reagan platform of the GOP, or become corrupted by the power and money of national politics.
It seems only right and proper that a Republican should be a conservative, not a RINO. A true conservative will hold fast to principles of human equality, to principles of limited government, and push for lower taxes and reduced spending. Non-conservatives do not belong in the GOP. That’s what the Democratic Party is for. But Democrats are not dangerous just because they are Democrats, subscribing to liberal and secular humanist ideologies is what makes them danagerous.
Some of today’s Democrats have become DINOs—Democrat In Name Only. DINOs have abandoned the party of FDR and JFK. They have sold out to the New Left revolutionaries who are taking America and the West down the path to domestic and cultural sui-cide. Like actors playing a role, the New Leftists take on the persona of a moderate to deceive registered Democrats, and even some gullible Republicans.

Excerpt from America: A Purpose-Driven Nation by Philip M. Pantana
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