Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Anger on Display Among Conservative PAC Audience
Fox News ^

Posted on 03/04/2007 4:15:07 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Anger on Display Among Conservative PAC Audience

Sunday , March 04, 2007 By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON — America's conservatives are mad and they're not going to take it anymore.

That was the message the movement's leaders delivered throughout the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. last week.

One after another, conservatives told FOXNews.com that they are angry, irritated, frustrated and in some cases depressed. And the target of their angst and ire is none other than the Republican Party, which wants and needs their support to win the 2008 presidential election and avoid losing more seats in the Senate and House next election.

Many of these conservatives, whose national stars began to rise with the presidential election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, described the GOP's state of affairs in Washington with words like "failed," defeated" and "in the grave."

"The Republican Party apparently has a death wish, but that doesn't mean we conservatives have to go along with it," Richard Viguerie, a movement veteran who helped elect Reagan, said during his wildly-received speech delivered Thursday. "Let's focus on the conservative movement, not the GOP."

"We've got to stop being lackeys of the Republican Party. We've got to be a third force," said Bill Greene, head of RightMarch.com, an online activist network. He is running as a Republican in the June special election to replace the late Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-Ga., who died of cancer on Feb. 13.

Several candidates vying for the GOP nomination appeared at the conference. But one — Arizona Sen. John McCain — was notably absent, and the frontrunner in generic opinion polls — former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — acknowledged to the crowd that he has differences with his audience on social issues.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 181-183 next last
valid. I'd agree........
1 posted on 03/04/2007 4:15:08 PM PST by Sub-Driver
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

...and not one coulter/edwards/poofer comment either...


2 posted on 03/04/2007 4:16:18 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

I think this has been quite evident here for the past few months! LOL!


3 posted on 03/04/2007 4:17:01 PM PST by TommyDale (What will Rudy do in the War on Terror? Implement gun control on insurgents and Al Qaeda?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

oh sure, let's dump the GOP - and go into the political wilderness for the next 40 years. there's a real solid plan.


4 posted on 03/04/2007 4:17:56 PM PST by oceanview
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
"The Republican Party apparently has a death wish, but that doesn't mean we conservatives have to go along with it," Richard Viguerie, a movement veteran who helped elect Reagan, said during his wildly-received speech delivered Thursday. "Let's focus on the conservative movement, not the GOP."

Please?

5 posted on 03/04/2007 4:18:35 PM PST by Condor 63
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
We've got to be a third force," said Bill Greene, head of RightMarch.com, an online activist network.

Is that like Clinton and Blair's The Third Way?

6 posted on 03/04/2007 4:19:08 PM PST by McGavin999 ("Hard is not Hopeless" General Petraeus)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TommyDale
I think this has been quite evident here for the past few months! LOL!


7 posted on 03/04/2007 4:21:14 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: LtdGovt

I said HERE, meaning Free Republic.

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=173

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=174;results=1


8 posted on 03/04/2007 4:23:13 PM PST by TommyDale (What will Rudy do in the War on Terror? Implement gun control on insurgents and Al Qaeda?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: oceanview
"oh sure, let's dump the GOP - and go into the political wilderness for the next 40 years. there's a real solid plan."

Or, we could just keep on doing the same thing, again and again (voting the least worse RINO into office), while expecting different results...

Get a clue. You are in the political wilderness.

9 posted on 03/04/2007 4:27:23 PM PST by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: LtdGovt

I think social conservatives can accept that there are many Republicans who will vote for Giuliani under any circumstances. Why can't the Giuliani supporters accept the fact that social conservatives who adhere to principles be given that same consideration?


10 posted on 03/04/2007 4:27:50 PM PST by TommyDale (What will Rudy do in the War on Terror? Implement gun control on insurgents and Al Qaeda?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

"You can't make a contract with America and break it," Wayne LaPierre, executive vice-president of the National Rifle Association, said of the 1994 congressional class that helped usher in the "Contract with America," which pledged limited government, fiscal and social conservative reforms.


11 posted on 03/04/2007 4:29:09 PM PST by Popman ("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: oceanview
oh sure, let's dump the GOP - and go into the political wilderness for the next 40 years. there's a real solid plan.

Nobody said that. But since you bring it up, it is the current plan that will put us in the political wilderness for 40 years. We can't out-socilist the socialists. The "we're slightly less sociailist than the socialists" platform is not a winner.

For 40 years the GOP was run by guys like nixon (price controls, welfare) and liberals in the congress like Bob Michael and Bob Dole. It was Reagan, followed up by the strong conservative platform in 1994 that brought about the GOP rise to power. Now, you would seem to suggest that it is socialism-lite that the GOP needs to do if it doesn't want to be in the political wilderness. I don't buy it. If you were alive at the time, I'll bet you voted for Ford in the '76 primary and Bush in the 80 primary because "Reagan can't win, he's too conservative".

12 posted on 03/04/2007 4:30:14 PM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
America's conservatives are mad and they're not going to take it anymore.

What else is new?

13 posted on 03/04/2007 4:30:19 PM PST by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do suck seed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TommyDale
Let's vote for this guy. Ain't he cute?


14 posted on 03/04/2007 4:30:29 PM PST by bjs1779
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: oceanview

The GOP needs to get on board with conservatives and conservatism, not the other way around.

As it stands now, there really isn't that much difference between the Rs and the Ds.


15 posted on 03/04/2007 4:32:11 PM PST by Disambiguator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: TommyDale
I said HERE, meaning Free Republic.

Of course. But I pointed out that the whole body of Republican primary voters seems to disagree.

I think social conservatives can accept that there are many Republicans who will vote for Giuliani under any circumstances. Why can't the Giuliani supporters accept the fact that social conservatives who adhere to principles be given that same consideration?

On the basis of what principle would someone refuse to support Rudy against Hillary? On the principle that handing the election to Hillary is the right thing to do?

Oh and by the way, accepting that someone is going to vote for a particular candidate is easy. I already accept that you are going to vote for Hunter or whoever you like. However, it is difficult to accept that some people might actually be helping Hillary win the election. You would be trashing me if I said that I would not vote for Hunter in the general election, and rightly so. Because the WOT is crucial. Why can't the Hunter-supporters be like the Rudy-supporters and support the person who wins the GOP nomination?
16 posted on 03/04/2007 4:32:52 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

I don't pretend to know the solution, but I'm still waiting for the GOP to pull out the knife they stuck in my back.

I think the main problem is that the GOP leadership is utterly, completely and totally out of touch with its base. COMPLETELY. Furthermore, they show no interest whatsoever in listening to us. Its like talking to a cadaver. I never get a response to anything I ask.

I don't know that abandoning the GOP is the answer, but I am witholding $$$ donations and screaming in faces until I detect a heartbeat inside Washington DC.


17 posted on 03/04/2007 4:33:42 PM PST by navyguy (We don't need more youth. What we need is a fountain of SMART.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TommyDale
I think social conservatives can accept that there are many Republicans who will vote for Giuliani under any circumstances. Why can't the Giuliani supporters accept the fact that social conservatives who adhere to principles be given that same consideration?

I'll tell you why (and I am not a Giuliani supporter, by the way). In the 80's and then 90's the social consrvatives and the anti-tax leave me aloners came together to bring about GOP ascendency. Having won over the contry on the idea that big government was not the answer, we turned the reins over to the social conservatives who totally and completely through the idea of small government out the window. They undid 40 years of hardwork and became the biggest spenders and porkers ever. Now, I am a social conservative, but at this point I would now vote for a social rino if the person had a strong anti big government agenda.

18 posted on 03/04/2007 4:33:46 PM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: oceanview

If the Republican party continues to refuse to recognise Conservative values they are going into the wilderness for the enxt 40 years anyway. Why go with them. They saw what happened in 2008 thanks to their cowardice and it hasnt changed them a bit.


19 posted on 03/04/2007 4:37:54 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: oceanview

If the Republican party continues to refuse to recognise Conservative values they are going into the wilderness for the enxt 40 years anyway. Why go with them. They saw what happened in 2006 thanks to their cowardice and it hasnt changed them a bit.


20 posted on 03/04/2007 4:38:10 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 181-183 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson