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0 Comments By Richard A. Viguerie Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) is chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)—the core GOP committee responsible for getting Republicans elected to the House, with majority control always as the ultimate goal. Well, Cole and his NRCC haven’t been doing so well lately, as you know if you’ve been watching the news at all. The Republicans have lost three straight special House elections this year—in Illinois, Louisiana, and most recently Mississippi—in three of the most conservative House districts in the nation. 0 Comments Conservatives Continue Their Boycott of GOP For over two years, Richard A. Viguerie and others have been calling for conservatives to cease supporting the Republican Party and its leaders. (See his 2006 book, Conservatives Betrayed, pp. 199-216, and the October 2006 Washington Monthly feature, “Time for Us to Go: Conservatives on why the GOP should lose in November,” by Christopher Buckley, Bruce Bartlett, Joe Scarborough, William A. Niskanen, Bruce Fein, Jeffrey Hart, and Richard Viguerie.) “Conservatives are in open rebellion against the GOP,” says Viguerie in a statement released today, “and have been since 2006. That’s why prospects for the Republican Party are so bleak this year, just as they were in 2006.” Viguerie adds: “It should be abundantly clear to all that conservatives no longer give blind loyalty to the Republican Party. We have other options, and we are using them. Some will vote for the Constitution Party candidate, some for the Libertarian Party candidate, and many others will decide that November 4 is a fine day for going fishing or playing golf. “Conservatives—the base of the Republican Party—are sitting on the sidelines, discouraged and angry. They are not getting out the vote or making any efforts to rescue the party that has deserted them. “That’s why the big news on Tuesday was not Hillary Clinton’s win in West Virginia. The big news was the third straight loss of a ‘safe’ Republican House seat, this time in Mississippi. “The conservative boycott is why the Republicans have lost three special elections this year—in Illinois, Louisiana, and now Mississippi—in three of the most conservative House districts in the nation. The Democrats didn’t win because those districts had suddenly turned liberal. The Republicans lost because the base of the GOP—conservatives—is so discouraged and angry over the Big Government policies of the national party. “In my book Conservatives Betrayed (p. 215) and for the past two years, I have also urged conservatives to support only conservative causes, and to stop their financial support of the Republican National Committee and the GOP campaign committees until the Republican Party returns to conservative principles. “Conservatives are doing exactly that, too. That’s why the fundraising efforts of the Republican candidates and committees are being eclipsed by the Democrats. And that’s why John McCain, with his lack of any conservative vision or principles and his pandering to the liberal mainstream media, is raising only a small fraction of what either Obama or Clinton is raising. “Conservatives will not return to the Republican Party until the GOP has a thorough housecleaning of its current leadership, and returns to principled conservative stands on the issues.” 0 Comments Conservatives Continue Their Boycott of GOP For over two years, Richard A. Viguerie and others have been calling for conservatives to cease supporting the Republican Party and its leaders. (See his 2006 book, Conservatives Betrayed, pp. 199-216, and the October 2006 Washington Monthly feature, “Time for Us to Go: Conservatives on why the GOP should lose in November,” by Christopher Buckley, Bruce Bartlett, Joe Scarborough, William A. Niskanen, Bruce Fein, Jeffrey Hart, and Richard Viguerie.) “Conservatives are in open rebellion against the GOP,” says Viguerie in a statement released today, “and have been since 2006. That’s why prospects for the Republican Party are so bleak this year, just as they were in 2006.” 0 Comments 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. 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. 0 Comments Conservatives’ worst fears about John McCain are being reconfirmed daily. He is a moderate Republican with no conservative philosophy to guide him. It’s clear that McCain and his top advisors (none of whom are active “movement conservatives”) have made a concerted decision to take conservative support for granted and reach out to so-called moderates. 0 Comments If you haven’t read the article yet, please look it over at http://conservativehq.com/news-from-the-front/ravonmccain080416 and let me know what you think. Do you think the article is fair and accurate? Does it go too hard on Senator McCain or let him off too easy? What other problems does John McCain have that the article does not mention? What strengths does he have that should be taken into consideration? Please let me know your thoughts, pro or con, in the blog below. Every comment will be published. Your thoughts will then be read by many others throughout the nation. 0 Comments By Richard A. Viguerie Republicans’ loss of the House seat held for two decades by former Speaker Dennis Hastert is proof that conservatives are prepared to sit out the 2008 elections. Instead of contributing and volunteering, conservatives are closing their checkbooks and staying home. Liberals and Democrats are enthusiastic to a degree not seen in decades, and grassroots conservatives are sitting on their hands. 0 Comments This past Wednesday, my hero and role model died. Across the world, many, many others are thinking the same – not just among members of the conservative movement. William F. Buckley Jr. was the man who gave birth to the conservative movement, who nurtured and guided it as it grew into a major political force. Now, he has gone to his reward, and he belongs to the ages. All those who cherish freedom are forever in Bill Buckley’s debt. Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan were the political fathers of today’s conservative movement, but Buckley was the movement’s intellectual father. 0 Comments The time has come for conservatives to move on, to shift priorities, and to work to elect conservatives at all levels now and in the years to come. For too long, conservatives have done most of the work necessary to elect Republican candidates, but, once elected, most of those Republicans have ignored conservatives’ concerns or have opposed conservatives outright. These Republicans have taunted us: “What are you going to do? Vote for the liberal Democrats? Calm down and grow up, and keep supporting us even while we trash you and people like you and much of what you believe in.” 0 Comments This was my reaction the other day to the remarks by former President George H.W. Bush at his endorsement of John McCain: In its efforts to deal with John McCain's "conservative problem," the McCain campaign is showing how bad that problem is. The latest evidence of that is bringing out George H.W. Bush to criticize conservatives who have problems with the Senator. Believe it or not, this was touted by some in the McCain camp as something that would establish the Senator's conservative bona fides and improve his standing with conservatives! 0 Comments ...time for someone to jump in who can unify conservatives and the GOP by Richard A. Viguerie The discombobulated state of the Republican presidential campaign means that it is still possible for someone to jump into the race. Such a candidate could serve as a kingmaker at the Republican convention in September, or even – yes, it’s possible – could become the party’s nominee. Currently, Republicans are split among the various candidates; most conservatives are undecided, or ambivalent, or support one candidate or another because the alternatives are worse. Having been betrayed by a Republican establishment – by a president and members of Congress who pretended to be conservatives in order to get elected – grassroots conservatives are justifiably wary of the present contenders for leadership. All the remaining GOP presidential candidates have good qualities; all are flawed. 0 Comments |
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