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Who Are the True Conservatives? By Larry Klayman As difficult as this may be for you to do, please try to imagine the following. It is the year 2008. After eight years in the nation’s most powerful Senate seat, Hillary Clinton wrangles the Democratic nomination from a weak field, squeaks out a victory in the general election and ascends to the White House as President and Commander-in-Chief. Immediately, “President” Hillary Clinton begins to go about the business of pushing her liberal agenda. When it comes to energy policy, she creates an Energy Task Force and invites the world’s most extreme environmental groups to the White House for a strategy session, and behind closed doors they meet with her staff to formulate policy. Conservatives are predictably and rightly outraged, as they were in 1993 during Hillary’s failed attempt to place the entire healthcare system under government control through a series of closed-door meetings. When pressed, President Clinton refuses to say what transpired during the sessions, or even provide the names of the groups in attendance as she is required to do by law. Instead, she hides behind bogus claims of executive privilege, noting glibly before the White House Press Corp that Republican Dick Cheney had done the same exact thing seven years prior and had gotten away with it. The precedent, President Hillary Clinton says, was set. And she is right. Judicial Watch has taken a bit of heat from so-called conservatives who have questioned our investigations against Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, and other Republicans who break the law. (Note: None of our supporters have questioned Judicial Watch’s non-partisanship). We understood such actions might offend a few in the conservative movement who place their loyalty to the Republican Party above all else. But we acted anyway because it was the right thing to do—because it was the conservative thing to do, and because we put the country first! For what good is loyalty to a political party when it requires that you violate your conservative principles? No good conservative can honestly say he values secrecy over openness, the government over the individual. Yet this is exactly what a few conservative loyalists (who not coincidentally get large consulting fees from the Republican Party) say when they oppose JW in its legal actions against Cheney and others. What these individuals don’t realize is that, with their “blind loyalty” to the Republican Party, they set the stage for the nightmarish yet very possible scenario described above. Believe me when I say, Hillary Clinton, and every other politician who disrespects the law, hopes Judicial Watch fails in its attempts to restore integrity to government. They hope we fail in our efforts to get to the truth from Dick Cheney and Tom DeLay. Judicial Watch takes seriously its responsibility to hold not only liberal politicians to the high standard to which they refuse to hold themselves, but to hold every politician to that same standard. We sincerely appreciate the continued support of the true conservatives who realize the importance of this mission to the future of our nation and our values. As John Adams, our second and perhaps greatest conservative president, said just 13 days before signing the Declaration of Independence, “Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.”
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