Posted on 11/05/2008 6:51:29 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Time for New Republican Leadership, Conservatives Say Wednesday, November 05, 2008 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
U.S. Capitol (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – Voters on Tuesday did not reject conservatism, a longtime conservative activist said. “They rejected Big Government Republicanism in all its forms, including the Bush administration and the Republican leadership in Congress.”
Richard A. Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said the Republican defeat in 2008 “can and will be laid at the feet of the Big Government corporate Republicans who abandoned the Reagan coalition, massively expanded government, and ignored the needs and values of regular, grassroots Americans. They protected Wall Street and K Street and forgot about Main Street."
According to Viguerie, Republicans will make a comeback only when they return to their conservative roots.
“That process starts with the replacement, with principled conservatives, of all of the Republicans' elected Congressional leaders, as well as most members of the Republican National Committee and most state party officials. It's time for new leaders, from top to bottom."
New leadership
Republican Conference Chairman Adam Putnam (Fla.) already has announced his intention to step down.
“I have enjoyed every minute as Conference Chairman, he wrote in a Nov. 4 letter to colleagues, “but I believe it is time to step off the leadership ladder and return my focus to crafting public policy solutions for America’s generational challenges – the very reason I ran for Congress in the first place.”
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This article is right on!
“That process starts with the replacement, with principled conservatives, of all of the Republicans’ elected Congressional leaders, as well as most members of the Republican National Committee and most state party officials. It’s time for new leaders, from top to bottom.”
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Amen.
Let’s do it.
Let’s take back our party from the RINOs and moderates. That is the only chance we have of winning in the future.
The shambles that is now the national Republican Party is a direct result of trying to appease the Left and “center” at the expense of conservatives.
RINO - The other white meat................
However, I only that the Obamanation will open the immigration floodgates and ACORNify the voting process to such a degree that regaining any semblance of power will be well nigh impossible. That's how the left does it...
Good point
Make the Rino extinct.
Everything and anything should be challenged just as the left did.
Forget this Lucy and Charlie Brown hands across the aisle crap.
Winning should be the priority.
Make the Rino extinct.
Everything and anything should be challenged just as the left did.
Forget this Lucy and Charlie Brown hands across the aisle crap.
Winning should be the priority.
New Leadership????
We need a leader.
Please. This might make some feel better but it’s time to face facts...this country is loaded with a majority of people who are left of center. It’s staring us in the face but we don’t want to see it. The majority of people in the U.S. want to be taken care of by their govt’. They want socialized medicine, they want to take the “evil” wealthy down, they want to be absolved of their responsibilities by way of abortion and expanded unemployment benefits.
The only way I see conservatives returning to power is through incrementalism. We have to tow the moderate line for awhile and then if we gain some majority, slowly, very slowly enact legislation that removes the public from the govt’ trough.
Amen
Time to stop letting the country clubbers run the show. Bring the small l libertarians and the paleocons back.
we do it through the states. we need more good governors and mayors
That’s what has happened since 2000 and you saw the results last night. We tried to play both sides of the fence. It doesn’t give the people a clear choice. If we play the game of who can give the country away the fastest everyone loses.
Republican leadership has performed poorly, for sure.
We need some new blood with a passion for the Constitution and the principles of the founding fathers - not afraid to take a stand and work relentlessly on matters on conservative, foundational values - good leaders able to teach and promote the things that made this country great.
Who and where are such people??
nobody cares about the constitution anymore...
Hell yes!!!! I want leadership who will fight for us. They have their guide book, it’s called the last eight years.
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