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.
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