Posted on 05/21/2006 1:33:27 PM PDT by FairOpinion
CAIRO, May 21, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – The patriarch of US conservatives urged his followers on Sunday, May 21, to learn their lesson and stop their financial and logistic support of the Republican Party whose leaders throughout the years have "betrayed" conservative voters by failing to honor their election promises.
"Conservatives should dedicate their money and volunteer efforts toward conservative groups and conservative candidates," Richard Viguerie wrote in an opinion piece in The Washington Post.
"They should redirect their anger into building a third force -- not a third party, but a movement independent of any party. They should lay the groundwork for a rebirth of the conservative movement and for the 2008 campaign, when, perhaps, a new generation of conservative leaders will step forward," he added.
Viguerie took aim at President George W. Bush's tenure, saying that he has "never seen conservatives so downright fed up as they are today."
"The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative.
"Many conservatives have concluded that the benefits of unwavering support for the GOP [Republican Party] simply do not, and will not, outweigh the costs," opined Viguerie.
"Betrayal"
The veteran conservative said Bush has "betrayed" American conservatives by adopting a "Big Business" agenda not a conservative one as he promised before his election and re-election.
"Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed. After the 'Bridge to Nowhere' transportation bill, the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination and the Dubai Ports World deal, the immigration crisis was the tipping point for us," he said.
Viguerie also cited approval of the Republican-controlled House of more taxpayers' money for an embryo-killing type of stem cell research and a "hate crimes" measure that could lead to the classification as "hate" of criticism of homosexual activity.
"In today's Washington, where are the serious efforts by Republicans to protect unborn children from abortion? Where is the campaign for a constitutional amendment to prevent liberal judges from allowing same-sex marriage?"
He went on: "We've been rewarded with an amnesty plan for illegal immigrants. We've been rewarded with a war in Iraq that drags on because of the failure to provide adequate resources at the beginning.
"Now we know what they do when they have control."
"Temporary Defeat"
Viguerie said the current relationship between the Republicans and the conservatives is similar to the one between a cheating husband and his forgiving wife.
This, he added, "makes me think of a cheating husband whose wife catches him, and forgives him, time and time again. Then one day he comes home to discover that she has packed her bags and called a cab -- and a divorce lawyer."
Viguerie advised American conservatives to stay home in the mid-term Congressional elections in November, saying that the expected win of Democrats could be for the long-term good of the conservatives.
"Sometimes it is better to stand on principle and suffer a temporary defeat," he put it wisely.
"If conservatives accept the idea that we must support Republicans no matter what they do, we give up our bargaining position and any chance at getting things done," he added.
Viguerie reminded the Republicans that it is largely the defection of conservatives that is driving the president's poll numbers to new lows.
"Unhappy conservatives should be taken seriously," he warned the Republican camp.
"When conservatives are unhappy, bad things happen to the Republican Party."
He cited the conservatives' key role in past Republican defeats during the eras of presidents Thomas E. Dewey, Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford.
"The current record of Washington Republicans is so bad that, without a drastic change in direction, millions of conservatives will again stay home this November."
It's phony, but who is responsible?
The GOP leads 55 to 45, but through weak leadership and the RINOs that you mention do their best to undermine us.
And who is responsible?
The very same GOP that pleads with us to vote for them? It's a vicious sycle. We are told to vote for the RINOs and we are told that the party could do more if not for the RINOs and round and round it goes.
If the GOP dies, it will be because of multiple self inflicted wounds.
IOW, it's what too many "conservative" leaders ain't.
For those who asked "Who is Viguerie", be sure to read this thread:
Betrayed by Bush ( Who is Richard Viguerie?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1636756/posts
Viguerie may no longer hold much influence with the Republican Party, but he has a history of disillusionment with its leaders. In 1981, Viguerie said Ronald Reagan's Cabinet choices, "gave conservatives the back of the hand" and complained that Reagan allied himself with "the liberals, the Democrats and the Soviets."
Viguerie later said of Reagan, "The emperor has no clothes on; just about every conservative I know is now acknowledging it."
Then there's OBL, who came in 2nd in 2001:
Time's Person of the Year 2001 — in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks — was New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani. It was a somewhat controversial result; many thought that Giuliani was deserving, but many others thought that the rules of selection ("the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest effect on the year's news") made the obvious choice Osama bin Laden.
Source: Wikipedia
What's conservative about going into hysterics about "divorcing" the Republican party, thus handing the democrats the reigns of power?
Anyone who preaches about "divorcing" the Republican party hasn't paid a helluva lot of attention to just how vile and disgusting the democrats have been in recent times.
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