In This Time of Moral and Political Crises

"The Mount Vernon Statement reads like a document stuck in the Sixties: 'America’s principles have been undermined and redefined in our culture, our universities and our politics.' There is not the slightest hint or acknowledgement that conservatives had any part in this undermining or redefining. Nothing about people posing as conservatives being responsible for a brutal empire that straddles the world, the bankrupting of the nation to pay for this empire, the justification of torture at home and abroad, an imperial presidency, the evisceration of the Tenth Amendment, you name it."

David Franke of The American Conservative compares the Young Americans for Freedom Sharon Statement of 1960 with the recently issued Mount Vernon Statement.