Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Brain Trust - Connie Mackey

Connie Mackey is the President of the Family Research Council Action's Political Action Committee. She joined The Matt Friedeman Show to discuss the FRC's upcoming Voter Values Summit. Here are the "CliffsNotes" of her segment.


How are things shaping up for your Voters Values Summit later this week?
We have seen an very large number of registrations for this years event. Many conservative candidates and high-profile speakers are going to be there in an attempt to get their message out as well.  
With all of the focus on our economic problems, do people still see these "values" driven issues as being as important?
Our organization certainly thinks so, we have been trying to push the idea that the social issues that provide the underpinnings of a society are more crucial to a civilization than its economic policies.   
If you have solid values and solid families the economic situation can't help but improve.  Intact families are really the answer to so many of the economic issues we are facing.
Why is that we can't get these issues out there?
I firmly believe that Personnel is Policy.  In voting for Barack Obama this nation got exactly what it wanted.  At our organization we really vet people before we will endorse anyone.   
We are concerned with people who have acted on what they have said.  We want people that have lived out their beliefs.
What are the issues at this Values Voters event?
Protection of life in all its forms.  Protection of traditional marriage.  There has been extensive research on the impact of intact families on our society done by our organization. 
We are going to be emphasizing the necessity of smaller government; promoting life and religious liberty.  Our event's goal is to continually remind people of these issues.
How consequential is this next election cycle?
Barack Obama certainly believes that it is a crucial and defining election cycle. 
The liberals have their "values" and this cycle is very crucial to determining what model our country is going to follow -  more of a socialist, European model or the model that our country's founding fathers envisioned, with economic freedom and limited government at its core.

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