Viguerie: Poll Reveals Anger With GOP

NewsMax ^ | February 1, 2006

[olezip]

A recent example might be the governor's race in Virginia. A leftist won the race for governor of Virginia. The Republicans in the State House and Senate raised taxes; the Republican running for governor positioned himself as a moderate who stood for nothing. He took his good old time to reaffirm the second amendment. It it no wonder he lost to Tim Kaine. It does not seem to matter whether Virginia has a Republican or Democrat in office, because there is no conservatism.

[xcamel]

5th generation family business, (from 1827) profitably doing > $150 million a year. Not so easy to vote with feet when they're part of the bedrock.

[truth_seeker]

"If people choose to ignore the anger that has built up over the last few years rather than address it, then the Republicans will lose."

All politics is local. What can individuals do, to acknowledge their anger, to their satisfaction?

Bush is done in 2008, in case the one making these threats hasn't realized.

Individual candidates run, every two, four or six years. That is where the rubber meets the road. If they don't like a particular representative, put money behind a primary alternative.

Real simple!!

[Verginius Rufus]

There was something about Reagan and his dealings with the Soviets during his second term on TV the other day. The day after a big banquet for Reagan and Gorbachev (I forget where it was held), George Will had a column saying that the date of that banquet would be remembered as the day the U.S. lost the Cold War.

Pessimists aren't always right

[COEXERJ145]

A new online poll...

Online polls, no matter what they show, are worthless.

If the they were accurate, then John Kerry would have won all 50 states in 2004, the House and Senate would be 90% Democrat, and the population would be demanding homosexual marriage be made legal.

Of course, just like the Democrats and MSM media do with their bogus polls, the Bush haters will latch onto this poll, claim it is true, and then use it to justify their whacked out positions.

[Dane]

Perhaps most troublesome for the GOP, Viguerie pointed out, is how that anger may affect the 2006 mid-term elections: 51 percent of donors said they plan to reduce or end their financial support in 2006

And that is why 2005 was a record year for the RNC.

[jammer]

I remember that guys like you 20 years ago were whining and moaning how Reagan was running up an 'astronomical' budget deficit,

I'm a guy like "you [ReaganMan]" and I believe you are mistaken or deliberately lying. I never heard one Reagan supporter say that. Democrats said that. Republicans bitched about O'Neill and minions breaking deals and going wild on spending. We were fighting to keep the tax cuts.

That is just one of the most deceptive characterizations I've read on this site, which has a lot of them.

[Dane]

I'm a guy like "you [ReaganMan]" and I believe you are mistaken or deliberately lying. I never heard one Reagan supporter say that. Democrats said that. Republicans bitched about O'Neill and minions breaking deals and going wild on spending. We were fighting to keep the tax cuts

BS, there were a lot of so-called "true conservatives" who were whining about Reagan back in the mid-80's.

[jammer]

Dane, we were hunkered down taking heat because of insistence on deficits and increasing military spending in the face of deficits. Sorry, but what you say is just a lie.

[jammer]

should read, "insistence on keeping tax cuts and increased military spending"

[Dane]

Dane, we were hunkered down taking heat because of insistence on deficits and increasing military spending in the face of deficits. Sorry, but what you say is just a lie

I bet you if you did a Lexis/Nexis search, there would be a ton of articles whining about Reagan not being conservative enough back in the mid-80's.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Some of the issues that are making Republicans and conservatives in particular angry today are not trivial. It isn't about whining for the sake of it and history has proven over and over when people get angry enough they will throw out incumbents.

[Stellar Dendrite]

lol

[AmericaUnited]

That is just one of the most deceptive characterizations I've read on this site

Oh stop it with the drama queen exaggerations. What have you only been here two minutes?

I never heard one Reagan supporter say that.

Did you live in some remote cave with no TV? I remember it well and I'm sure many others do too.

[Arrowhead1952]

[Dane]

BTW, Vigurie probably made this "online" poll, because he isn't in the loop.

JMO, it's called political sour grapes, bruised ego, etc.etc..

[Stellar Dendrite]

ping

[SC33]

There is some indication that alot of Conservatives are angry about a few important issues. In many cases, they are legitimate gripes. It remains to be seen, however, whether this will have a serious impact at the ballot.

Simply put, and I think you would both agree, if the Conservative voters in a given area dislike the Republican in office, they may very well vote against him/her. If they like the person in office, they will vote for him/her. The most that we as voters can do in a year like this is too support the candidates we agree with, and whom we have the ability to vote for or financially contribute too.

If there are certain issues that we would like to see action on, such as illegal immigration, than the most we can do is help to change the party by voting for Conservatives who share our ideals. President Bush cannot run again, so as another poster on this thread previously said, all politics truly is local.

If it is change that one desires, the best answer is to help provoke change and/or action from within the Party.

[SC33]

"It remains to be seen, however, whether this will have a serious impact at the ballot"

Clearly that sentence came out weird, but I think you understand what I mean.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>Well Reagan Man, I remember that guys like you 20 years ago .... I'm willing to bet ....

Don't, you'd lose. For starters, you don't know me at all. In 1986 the deficit was coming down, welfare entitlement and non-security discretionary spending had been reduced and Reagan nominated a solid conservative to the SC by the name of, Antonin Scalia. And the GOP ws getting my donations. Life was good.