Rainbow connection
Posted on 08/02/2006 9:43:55 AM PDT by PDR
The goal of GOPProgress.com, according to one of its founders, is to provide a counterweight on the web to conservatives sites like RedState and serve as an online forum for moderate/centrist/mainstreet/mainstream/libertarian Republican candidates across the country.
Site editor Liz Mair today calls on RNC chairman Ken Mehlman to stop giving interviews to RedState because they're leading a crusade against MI GOPer Joe Schwarz, who faces a competitive challenge from a conservative.
Writes Mair:
"Mr. Mehlman needs to hear from Republicans--moderates, libertarians, conservatives and everyone else--that the Chairman of the RNC should not be undercutting the efforts of his President, and his party, by giving exclusive interviews to sites that appear hell-bent on bringing down a candidate endorsed by everyone from the President to the House Majority Leader to Newt Gingrich to the NRA."
The site includes with two "exclusive interviews" of Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL) and Sen. Olympia Snowe. (R-MN).
And it inaugurates its Weekly Five -- quotations from "crazy conservative politicians." Mair calls it "entertainment for the moderate masses."
All this as RedState, under new management, prepares for a major redesign. It relaunches Monday. Mair, incidentally, has posted at RedState before. RedState's Erick Erickson, in an IM, tells us that "While RedState will remain the place on the net for Republicans across the political spectrum to participate, we welcome GOPProgress to the internet and are glad that liberal Republicans finally have a place besides Daily Kos where they can hang out full time."
GOPProgress.com kicks off a day after ABC PAC unveiled itself to be a counterweight to the Democrats' ACT Blue PAC, which has raised $7M for liberal candidates.
Good, then all the moderates and Big Tent Polers here can take a hike and go there instead. Thanks!
I will check it out and at least give it a chance and see how "welcome" libertarians really are.
In other words the site is for Democrats who can't stand the left-wing moonbats that have taken over their party?
ROFL! Who the heck added 'New Majority' to the keywords?
Since when is the homosexual population a majority?
It's part of their quest for a diverse agenda and party.
You want to align yourself with a group that takes money from anti war protesters?
Moderates = Liberal Republicans undermining the GOP
LOL!
Where did you hear they take money from antiwar protesters?
LOL! Their name says Democrat plant all over it. The "progressives" want to transform the GOP into a clone of the 'rat party.
Liz Mair is the editor of WWW.GOPPROGRESS.COM, and a professional political consultant operating out of Arlington, Virginia, where she lives with her husband, Mark, and her cat, Isabel.
The LCR is a Rainbow funded network, see David Mixner (former Clinton GAY advisor), funds Democratic Victory Funds and Log Cabin Republicans to advance gay issues.
David Mixner was also one of the organizers of the October 1969 Vietnam Moratorium.
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
AYN RAND
Any real libertarian who shows up there is going to find out that in practice there is no substantial difference between a "GOP moderate" and a socialist Democrat, except the pockets where the payoffs end up.
Bump!
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