[BCR #226]

And yet, no mention of how people like Frank Wolf along with Jim Rich have been destroying the party for years. No mention how Bob McDonnell stabbed the conservatives that got him his win in the back over the “Restaurant Ban”.

You want to know how these “moderates” work? Look at what they did to Mr. Mark Tate. They knew they couldn’t beat him in the primary so they had bogus felony charges filed against him so that the “moderate” candidate won the primary by default.

These examples of “Republicans” disgusts me and they offend me. Never, have I seen them putting out yard signs or doing door to door drives. I’ve never seen them lift a finger to make a grass roots effort. People like me however have been assaulted, threatened and worse. One of our conservative grass roots volunteers got HIT BY A CAR!!! (yes, it was a hit and run.)

All of us who do the hard work are leaving the party. I ask, who is going to get their hands dirty putting up signs and spending their free time out getting votes?

As long as this keeps up, I will turn my back to the Republican Party. I no longer vote the lesser of two evils. I’ll sit a particular race out and under vote on the ballot. The Republicans better understand that we aren’t coming back.

Mike

[sefarkas]

As long as conservatives lose battles with rank-and-file Republicans and elected office holders on policy and politics, there is little hope of general election success. The conservative faction of the party needs (1) to find an articulate and attractive spokesman, and (2) to have wanna-be office holders via the Republican line earn the endorsement of Conservatives. Republican office holders who in key votes side against conservative principals, e.g., TARP I, impeachment for perjury, need to be ousted in primaries and have funds denied in the general. Conservative Republicans are treated like African-American Democrats, both of whom lock-step vote the party line but never reap the benefits. Campaign promises to lower taxes and eliminate federal agencies like Education followed by key votes to the contrary need to be followed up with vigorous opposition in the very next primary election. When the country-club Republicans fail to get in office and the victorious Democrats over-reach with socialist solutions to the country's problems, the Conservatives will have a ready and willing voting block. Unfortunately, such a process has taken years and leaves deep scars such as the foreign policy consequences of President Carter and the feckless approach to Vietnam by the Johnson Administration.

[Maelstorm]

Man I feel the same way. I don’t think those who are engineering this coup will find the result they seek. I was just contacted tonight by the McDonnell campaign and I was planning to work for his election but I wrote back that his involvement in this thing with Jeff has made that less likely. I’ll vote for Bill Bolling but I’ll not work for the party at all if they succeed in removing Jeff on such petty grounds. I’d rather see a another Democrat elected given how much they liked Mark Warner they can have another.