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The Tea Party Pledge

The Conservative Exodus Project, a group of traditionalist conservatives who say the GOP is moving too leftward, started a petition in 2007 to encourage conservatives to leave the GOP if a suitable presidential candidate was not chosen in 2008.

The group recently created the Tea Party Pledge for those who believe in the concept.

The Tea Party Pledge

We, the undersigned, pledge to vote only for sound candidates regardless of their party. We seek traditional candidates who favor an anti-globalist, America First platform. We shall only vote for a candidate who:

(1) Supports reductions in legal immigration; favors attrition policies, ending birthright citizenship and terminating chain migration; and opposes amnesty and illegal immigration, especially from the Third World. (Both legal and illegal immigration are driving down American wages and undermining traditional demographics).

(2) Supports America First economic policies, and opposes free trade (e.g. NAFTA, et al.), which is destroying the American economy. (Historically conservatives opposed free trade, a globalist practice that Karl Marx himself supported, but many have been "neoconned" on this issue.)

(3) Supports national self-defense, but opposes interventionism and nation building. The transformation of the Middle East to liberal democracy is Wilsonian liberalism, not conservatism.

(4) Opposes all forms of affirmative action.

(5) Opposes federal bailouts.

(6) Supports states' sovereignty.

and

(7) Opposes "hate crimes," "hate-thought laws" and other Orwellian legislation used to silence patriotic criticism.

Unless a Democrat or Republican candidate meets the seven criteria above, we pledge not to vote or to vote third party.

To sign The Conservative Exodus Project's Tea Party Pledge, visit their website at www.conservativeexodusproject.com