WE ARE REPUBLICANS BECAUSE...

• WE BELIEVE the strength of our nation lies with the individual and that each person's dignity, freedom, ability and responsibility must be honored.
• WE BELIEVE in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability.
• WE BELIEVE free enterprise and encouraging individual initiative have brought this nation opportunity, economic growth and prosperity.
• WE BELIEVE government must practice fiscal responsibility and allow individuals to keep more of the money they earn.
• WE BELIEVE the proper role of government is to provide for the people only those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private organizations and that the best government is that which governs the least.
• WE BELIEVE the most effective, responsible and responsive government is government closest to the people.
• WE BELIEVE Americans retain the principles that have made us strong while developing new and innovative ideas to meet the challenges of changing times.
• WE BELIEVE Americans value and should preserve our national strength and pride while working to extend peace, freedom and human rights throughout the world.
• Finally, WE BELIEVE the Republican Party is the best vehicle for translating these ideals into positive and successful principles of government.

CONTRAST THE PARTIES

Democrats believe in centralized government; Republicans would return that governing power to the people. The following partial party comparison offers a clear choice to thinking Americans concerned with their country's future.

Defense
Republicans		Democrats
Believe that the only way to preserve world peace is to have a powerful, prepared defense. Believes in working diplomatically to resolve dangerous regional conflicts and has achieved a reduction of nuclear weapons. The Republican Party and its leaders are strongly opposed to domestic and international terrorism, and are committed to a policy that will make no concessions to terrorists.		Democratic administrations have cut America's defenses. Relying on talk and good intentions to preserve world peace, Democrats advocate sublimation of our sovereign interests to the authority of the United Nations.
The Economy
Republicans		Democrats
The Republican Party believes that the free enterprise system is the key to individual and national prosperity. Republicans seek to protect the free enterprise system against unwarranted government regulation, believe that "individuals shall prosper..."		The Democrat Party has, time and again, encouraged budget deficits and continues to fight plans to balance the federal budget, call for redudng the federal defidt through reductions in defense and tax increases, believes that "government must provide..."
The Family
Republicans		Democrats
Republicans believe the family is the foundation of our social order; believe it is important that we reflect upon and consider carefully the impact of government actions upon family life.		Democrats support efforts to make federal programs and benefits available to same sex couples.