On the Eve of Election Day

I mentioned back at the time of the primary election here in Ohio that I identify with "crunchy" conservatism. So, on the eve of election day with the paperback edition of the book just now hitting shelves, I thought I would print here the Crunchy Con Manifesto for your edification:

1. We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.
2. Modern conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and social character.
3. Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.
4. Culture is more important than politics and economics.
5. A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship - especially of the natural world - is not fundamentally conservative.
6. Small, Local, Old and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.
7. Beauty is more important than efficiency.
8. The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.
9. We share Russell Kirk's conviction that "the institution most essential to conserve is the family."
   

Now, how does this manifesto actually work itself out at the voting booth? If you figure that out, please let me know.