Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins said today on Fox News that a group of conservatives who signed a “manifesto” at Mount Vernon are not trying to create a third party but reclaim their principles.
“What’s happened is, I think, over the last 10 to 15 years, is that the the conservative movement has become too aligned with the Republican Party. In the sense that the Republican Party began to speak for the conservative movement,” he said.
Perkins said now you start to see conservative leaders and members of the tea party movement speaking out to say, “We’re not going to let the Republican Party define what conservatism is, we are.”
He said if the GOP wants to “thrive” they will adopt the principles they lined out in the statement today.
