Posted on 05/14/2008 2:31:52 PM PDT by ovrtaxt
Republican leaders in the White House, the Congress, and the Republican National Committee and its affiliates, along with most Republican leaders at the state level, have failed – or outright betrayed – the conservative voters who put them in their positions.
The result is that the party’s “brand” has become a negative, to an extent greater than in the Watergate era, perhaps worse than in the days of Herbert Hoover.
The number of new Republican voters is flat while Democratic voter registration is skyrocketing.
Contributions to GOP candidates and Republican parties are way off, while donations to Democrats are setting records.
In primaries, votes for Republican candidates at all levels are running far behind the Democrats.
And in recent special elections, the party lost longheld congressional seats in Illinois, in Louisiana, and, yesterday, in Mississippi – all in districts carried overwhelmingly by President Bush. A single election can be a fluke, but when Republicans lose three seemingly safe seats in a row, disaster is looming.
The hard work of the last 50 years by millions of conservative campaign workers, donors, candidates, writers, intellectuals, and activists has been trashed. The conservative movement has been set back 10-20 years – possibly even permanently – by politicians consumed by power, including but certainly not limited to Denny Hastert, Tom DeLay, John Boehner, Roy Blunt, Mitch McConnell, Trent Lott, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, party chairman Mike Duncan, and their friends.
Some deserve more of the blame than others, but they are all part of a party Establishment that has brought the party down.
For things to change, for conservatives to be justified in giving our contributions, our volunteer efforts, our energy, and votes to the GOP, the party must clean house. The party leadership should resign immediately.
We must replace the Big Government/Big Business/Establishment Republicans with principled conservatives, most of them young. By “principled conservatives,” I mean leaders who will stand up to the liberals and fight for freedom and traditional values.
Republicans are doomed to wander in the political wilderness until this generation of weak-kneed, no-vision, inarticulate, afraid-of-the-liberal-media politicians are replaced mostly with principled conservatives in the mold of Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
Voters almost always reject a pale imitation in favor of the real thing.
The Democrats have firm principled beliefs. What motivates most Republican leaders? Nothing except a craving for power. What do Republicans offer voters? Nothing except “Elect us because we’re not Democrats.”
To Republican leaders, I say: You turned against the principles you once espoused – conservative principles – and, in turn, conservatives and the American people have turned against you. Things will not get better until you accept responsibility, and resign.
You have stayed too long. For the future of the Republican Party, for America and the cause of freedom: Go!
Dick’s been at the hooch again.
I’m sure the Captain of the Titanic would have jumped at the offer, had he known what lie ahead.
It’s important for the ship to go down with as many of the miscreant crew on board as possible as a warning to others.
WHAT Republican leaders?
Are you kidding me? Such statements show a stunning lack of knowledge about history. Republicans are indeed tainted right now--fairly in some cases, unfairly in others. But we are NOT at a historic low. The days of the Great Depression and the Watergate Era were much, much worse for conservatism.
Now, could we be HEADED in that direction? Yes, if our party doesn't get its head on straight.
He deserves to have a good swig or two,, he raised a lot of dough over the years for the GoP, something many here seem to forget.
Yeah riiiiight!!!
my favorite part, Thanks Richard!
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The hard work of the last 50 years by millions of conservative campaign workers, donors, candidates, writers, intellectuals, and activists has been trashed.
The conservative movement has been set back 10-20 years – possibly even permanently – by politicians consumed by power, including but certainly not limited to Denny Hastert, Tom DeLay, John Boehner, Roy Blunt, Mitch McConnell, Trent Lott, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, party chairman Mike Duncan, and their friends.
Some deserve more of the blame than others, but they are all part of a party Establishment that has brought the party down.
For things to change, for conservatives to be justified in giving our contributions, our volunteer efforts, our energy, and votes to the GOP, the party must clean house. The party leadership should resign immediately.
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Let all those here who lambaste conservatism and embrace “pragmatism” in the guise of moderation suck on that one for a minute..
I just sent the RNC a letter stating how they have lost my entire family as voters as well as all of our donations.
It’s like this giant ship with no captain and all of the 1st mates fighting for the top seat, and no one who is truly qualifed will be considered. “Almost Democrats” only need apply!
The ‘leaders’ who nodded as Bush as approval kept descending have some answers due.
The Bitcons, the bitter conservative losers, are jumping off the cliff.
Nope. Dick is spot on.
LOL!!! Obviously, he's been reading the Team Juan paid shillings posted, hereabouts!
BUMPed for The Truth!!!
True.
But these guys weren't the Establishment all their lives.
Some of them started out as rebels or mavericks.
And they ended up pretty much as all party oligarchies do, given enough time.
It's the way things always turn out, the way of the world, more than anything else.
It's still their fault, but there are limits to what one can expect from politics and people who become politicians.
Rush should read this on the air. Absolutely correct.
We don’t need a donkey in office. Let’s start with our local officials and get ready for 2012.
That word is "losers."
This is like communists saying, “all capitalists must give their money to the poor.” It’s just an empty call.
Resign, you say???
Ping.
One of McCain’s most ardent defenders on his blog actually said (paraphrasing) Vote for the lesser evil—that’s McCain.
Something about deliberately casting a vote for evil gives me the willies.
While I won't deny that there's some truth in the above statement, given that it is undoubtedly pro-Obama propaganda by the MSM, why don't we do the following? Why don't we seize the opportunity provided by the MSM's shoving of Obama down our throats to permanently de-claw the IRS?
This post (<-click), while addressing taxes, helps to explain why government "leaders" like Senator Obama are actually in contempt of the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics. In fact, the article referenced below shows that Obama is the #1 federal spending proposer in the Senate for '08; Clinton is #2.
Obama, a big-shot federal spenderThe people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state government powers. The people then need to wise up to the major problem that the federal government is not operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution, particularly where constitutionally unauthorized federal spending is concerned.
The bottom line is that the people need to send big-shot, Constitution-ignoring federal spenders like Obama home as opposed to trying to send people like him to the Oval Office. The people need to get in the faces of the feds, demanding a stop to constitutionally unauthorized federal spending while appropriately lowering federal taxes - or get out of DC.
Time to start afresh with principled conservatism. What we got now makes me sick.
Richard_Viguerie... "pro-Obama?"
Take a nap.
Vocabulary test for the day: Which word does NOT belong in the above quote? (Hint: it's italicized.)
The Republican Party will have several years of nothing much to do but think of what they will have to do to win in 2012.
The number of new Republican voters is flat while Democratic voter registration is skyrocketing.
Contributions to GOP candidates and Republican parties are way off, while donations to Democrats are setting records.
In primaries, votes for Republican candidates at all levels are running far behind the Democrats.
I can think of no other RINO that deserves it more.
TY for the ping, very good article.
The parasite mentality has finally won.
Cut it out, you call them Bitcons, I call them smartcons.
Are you too silly to see that what has been working since 2006, ain’t working? Gawd, what a joke the Rockefeller GOP is.
We are not jumping off the cliff, we are going to swim to a new island where globalist, pandering morons are not welcome.
People like you have pushed a losing agenda. You don’t know the half of it yet, you haved doomed us to years of RAT control.
Once the Illegals are legitimized and given amnesty after the election of Barack Obama the United states will cease to exists in less than twenty years. Chain migration once all illegal aliens are legalized will balloon the unassimilated hispanic population from a mere 12 % to almost half the population and will be pandered to by the most radical of elements in the democratic party. A new constitution will be promulgated that will resemble the Cuban constitution. The Republican party will be a mere memory and quite likely conservatives who dare to speak will likely find themselves in prison or worse. This is how important the next election is. The idea that we can afford to lose this election and come back in four years hence is the same delusion that was suffered by the opposition that lost to Hitler in 1936.
AMEN!!!
And that includes John McCain!
They have taken a once in a lifetime opportunity & have squandered it to the point that I don't think they will ever be in power again in my life. I daresay they should all be impeached!
In how many years will the United States cease to exist upon the legitimization of illegals by Juan McCain?
We can stop this madness at the convention, it’s really that simple, it can be done thats why we have a convention.
How so? Can you fill me in?
Thanks!
It matters not a twit, John McCain is a democrat running on the republican line. Democrats as always will vote for the real thing. The public is being betrayed by the partyless washington crowd that has decided that cheap labor and votes for pandering politicians and their own jobs are more important than the national interest or that of Americans.
This is the mirror image of the parties during much of the last fifty years. It illustrates well how far the GOP has sunk since the high water mark of 1994. "Compassionate conservatives." Ptui.
Operation Dump McCain for starters.
Don’t tell me you respect the Republican ‘leaders’ who have given us the 2008 election dilemma. Who among the GOP is a gutsy Conservative these days? Who do you feel like cheering on to win and represent you? I can’t think of ONE myself.
I won’t be deny that I could be wrong about the referenced article being pro-Obama even if it doesn’t mention Obama. But given that the article is essentially pro-Democrat, Obama, not Clinton, stands to benefit most from the news, in my opinion.
BTW, what’s your opinion about Obama’s contempt for the Constitution concerning constitutionally unauthorized federal spending?
Tell me how, cause that would be awesome. We need a revolution at the convention.
That is true as of today. It may not be true six months from now. McCain aside, there is a real danger of our getting totally smoked in Congress and Senate elections.
What the 'rats plan to shove down America's throats will not be just theoretical either. But the GOP has no leadership, no agenda, no interest from the grass roots (read: conservatives), and relatively little money. We keep losing seats to 'rats who run to the right of us. That means we have few candidates who themselves stand for anything, just as Viguerie said. For every Bobby Jindal we have ten complete nonentities for whom no one has any reason to vote, much less man a phone bank, stuff envelopes, pass out fliers and signs, etc. etc.
After eight years as titular party chief, Bush goes home to wherever, smugly consigning our futures to "history," while we have to live with the empty shell of a party he has left.
Given Richard Viguerie's immense and inarguable contributions to the cause of principled conservatism, over the past thirty years (give or take): "I could be wrong" is the absolute least one might reasonably expect in the way of concession, really. The man's track record is, quite simply, unassailable.
given that the article is essentially pro-Democrat
Absurd. Re-read, please.
Perhaps Amendment10 is one of those who is doomed to repeat history.
What you said makes more sense than much that I have heard today.
Revolt, riots, at the convention, ok steam off, call your congress critters, tell them you will not vote for McCain. Give no money to the Repubs, return there requests with a letter why you wont contribute. There are many things we can do. This is a nightmare, everytime I get convinced to vote for him, another day goes by and I am back to screw mccain, will not vote for him. I would rather see Obambi/clinton screw up the country, then someone with an (R) next to there name. I quit the repubs for good, they want me back, CHANGE!
You bitcons are the RINOs and you deserve to lose your standing in the party. Go wander the wilderness.
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