Of course, Richard Viguerie’s intent is to co-opt the Tea Party movement into a Third party to defeat the Republican party.
He literally dreads the emergence of a revived, CONSERVATIVE Republican party.
Don’t believe me? Look back to 1976. Ronald Reagan’s challenge to sitting president Gerald Ford was not good enough for Richard Viguerie, who mounted his own Third Party run again Ford.
Richard Viguerie backed the failed presidential aspirations of Ron Paul. Richard Viguerie is a Third Party man all the way.
So while he laments CONSERVATIVES like Mark Levin and dares to use the words of Ronald Reagan against Republicans, he cares not a thing about CONSERVATIVES who wear the Republican banner, only about defeating their party, as if that advances his own.
I am not going to vote for business as usual Republicans anymore that’s for sure.
I’ve been seduced and abandoned by the GOP since the days of RIchard NixOn.
Nixon was shafted by the liberal media to be sure, but his war against them used the Fairness Doctrine.
In the end, a radio preacher who led marches for victory in the Vietnam War had his radio station taken off the air by Nixon’s FCC on Fairness Doctrine ground.
Nixon had his enemies list that included all those lefties but also included this “win the war” preacher.
Nixon was president when the Environmental Protection Agency was set up. Now the EPA will be used to destroy our economy by Obama.
Richard Viguerie is dead on. I don't care if you are a Republican. I care that you are a Conservative. One cannot be a Republican more than a Conservative, or one is merely a Republican.
Republicans, who have lose well past half of their membership, do not deserve the mantle of Reagan Conservatism. If they do not SUBMIT to the Tea Partiers, they will cease to be a party. Mark my words.
As I recall he was, like Strom Thurmond, a John Connally booster in 1980.
The fact of the matter, is that the genius of Richard Viguerie was responsible for so much of the conservative gotv and fundraising success of the Reagan era. He pioneered the use of computerized and segmented donor lists for political direct mail. He supported Reagan, despite their early differences, and played no small part in his success, the success of conservatism, and the now apparently parasitic continuation of the modern Republican apparatus, which has no claim whatsoever to the Reagan mantle. This he seeks to rectify.
Viguerie compelled Reagan rightward. Direct mail testing of fundraising appeals compelled this, for him and for many others, who were met with electoral success as a result. The party did not learn, however, and is now in the doldrums, with a very large decline in contributions. Why is that? They've become arrogant and have completely lost touch, that's why. You see it every single day here on FR, and it's devolving rather than improving.
And you attack the messenger, who was a key architect of the modern conservative resurgence.
Talk about eating your own, as far as fellow conservatives. Trouble is, your perception of your own seems to be the party establishment, rather than a set of ideals. What Viguerie advocates is sound. Elect conservatives. Forget political party, if the Republicans refuse to field conservative candidates. Create a conservative candidacy in the absence of one in any given contest, via third parties if necessary. Or, even a conservative Democrat, all other options failing. This moves the discourse steadily rightward, much along the lines of the steady infiltration of the Republican Party by the left, that has steadily moved the discourse leftward. Turn the tables.
That is the way out of this mess. He sees it, has seen it for a very long time, and your attempting to smear him does a disservice to us all.
I got that, too.
It's obvious he's hiding his true intentions when he says the Republican leaders "distain the Tea Parties". I haven't seen or heard a single negative statement about the TP attributed to any Republican.