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All Republican Leaders Must Resign
ultimatejohnmccain.com ^ | Wed May 14 2008 | Richard Viguerie

Posted on 05/14/2008 2:31:52 PM PDT by ovrtaxt

All Republican leaders must resign
Written by Viguerie on Wed May 14 11:48:26 -0400 2008

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!



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2008; conservatism; conservativevote; gop; gopcoup; liberalism; libertarian; mccain; rinorevolution; rinos; rnc; ronpaulsupporter; viguerie
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To: willie2028

We don’t need any Muslim militants or coward ass liberals in office.


81 posted on 05/14/2008 7:06:51 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Antonio C

McLame is going down hard in Nov. Where is Rudy these days? Yep, off the radar screen. I’d advise you to stay away from tall buildings after the election. I wouldn’t want you to hurt yourself.


82 posted on 05/14/2008 7:17:29 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (No mas Juan "Traitor Rat" McAmnesty)
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To: ovrtaxt
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.

The first hint should have been when GW invited Teddy to the WH to watch movies. IMHO, GW Bush has squandered all conservative political capital that was earned over the last several decades......

83 posted on 05/14/2008 7:41:08 PM PDT by ErieGeno
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To: ovrtaxt
The Democrats have firm principled beliefs.

Well, firm beliefs, anyway. ;)

84 posted on 05/14/2008 7:49:09 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
The Democrats have firm principled beliefs.

I knew there was something wrong here.

Richard A. Viguerie announced in January 2008 his new Website www.UltimateRonPaul.com

85 posted on 05/14/2008 8:00:19 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: ovrtaxt; All
what i want to know is where are the Reagans,Washingtons,Jeffersons, Teddy Rooseveldts,etc when we NEED leaders like them.

BOTH parties are headed by "BOOBS", imVho.

i'm SICK to death of voting for the least BAD!

free dixie,sw

86 posted on 05/14/2008 8:02:46 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Antonio C
Any insurrection by anti-Republican McCain haters will be dealt with swiftly. Go screw up someone else’s party.

Ohhhhh, threats. How McCainian of you. Don't you liberal Republicans have a website of your own?

87 posted on 05/14/2008 8:57:28 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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To: ovrtaxt

bttt


88 posted on 05/14/2008 10:59:20 PM PDT by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: Antonio C
The Republican Party will no longer be held hostage to the extremist whims of you bitcons. Don’t like it, go join another party.

That's exactly what I am doing. It's people like you that are destroying the Republican Party. You will be crying this fall when you lose big & I have no doubt that you will be blaming the voters that left the party after it left them.

You want to remake the party into democrat lite - have at it!

89 posted on 05/15/2008 4:23:21 AM PDT by alicewonders (I'm a conservative, and I'm hated by the GOP & the Dems - I must be doing something right!)
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To: Antonio C

Dump the bitcons, huh? And replace them with who? Democrats?

Sounds like the plan is working. Good luck with that.


90 posted on 05/15/2008 4:27:47 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (This election is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if McCain wins, were still retarded.)
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To: Nickname

Someone once said, can’t remember right now who, that when confronted with a choice between two evils, choose neither.


91 posted on 05/15/2008 4:28:03 AM PDT by commonguymd (Let the socialists duke it out. All three of them.)
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To: ovrtaxt

Tom delay was a great leader, the rest of the RINOs didn’t back him up.


92 posted on 05/15/2008 4:32:32 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: Antonio C

You do realize this isn’t a Republican or a liberal website..? Are you lost?


93 posted on 05/15/2008 4:33:46 AM PDT by commonguymd (Let the socialists duke it out. All three of them.)
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To: stevio

Yes, he was clearly out of step with the new, leftist version of the GOP. He had to be discarded, he could not be salvaged.

There really was no other choice, you see. The re-education camps aren’t ready yet.


94 posted on 05/15/2008 4:39:47 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (This election is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if McCain wins, were still retarded.)
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To: indylindy

Voting for McCain as a conservative, screw the lessor of two evils nonsense and this namecalling bitcon stuff, would only embolden the Rockefeller GOP take over and effectively would turn the GOP into a second Democrat party.

Heck, if that happens, we essentially have one party period. Conservatives must win back this party or start a new one.

3 more special election disasters when Republicans running as democrat lite run against a value voting conservative democrat. Can’t they take a hint? Conservatives, both fiscally and morally matter... How big does the hammer have to be?


95 posted on 05/15/2008 4:40:15 AM PDT by commonguymd (Let the socialists duke it out. All three of them.)
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To: Antonio C

LOL, you are possibly the most ignorant person here today. Conservatives losing faith in the party gave three nice losses to more conservative democrats in 3 special elections now. How big does the hammer have to be? Without the conservatives you liberals lose and the republican party goes in the wilderness, not the conservatives. Either we gain control again down the road or form a new party.

What will the Republicans have to entice voters that the Democrats don’t already offer.

Gosh I hate stupid.


96 posted on 05/15/2008 4:43:11 AM PDT by commonguymd (Let the socialists duke it out. All three of them.)
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To: ovrtaxt

IMHO, would’nt matter. In my mind, I keep coming back to what happened to Tom Delay.....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802383/posts

Washington is so jammed with parasites looking for a teat...that ANY organized opposition-IOW any Conservatives-will be run out of town . Period. This, folks, is a far BIGGER problem than just one with the Republican leadership.


97 posted on 05/15/2008 4:49:01 AM PDT by mo
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