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.
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"...muddle class Republicans..."
Boy do we have plenty of them around. LOL.
"oh sure, let's dump the GOP - and go into the political wilderness for the next 40 years. there's a real solid plan."
Here's a news flash for you.
We're already there.
I've been quoted as saying, "The only real difference between a "D" and an "R" is in the shape of the crook standing behind the straight guy."
To that, I must add, "A "C" or an "I" are two unique individuals."
Why does that poll ignore Hunter?
F. Thompson is on record voting against at least one amnesty.
Why, 18 months in advance, do people think that Rudy has a lock on being the nominee for the GOP?
If Rudy IS the GOP nominee for the office of President, running against Hitlery or Obama, then I probably would vote for Rudy.
Will I vote for Rudy in the primaries? No way.
That is what SHE said...
My projecting "thingie" is none of your concern Mr. Edweirds...
no, I don't see that. they can't win with the conservatives ALONE. now, they may well not be able to win without them if they stay home. but that is the dicey nature of coalition politics.
otherwise, the party is just going to sit around waiting for the next Reagan. and he was a once in a generation politician.
It is worth noting that "once in a generation politicians" are rarely Republican, let alone conservative Republicans.
I'm surprised but pleased to hear of that vote. If he truly stands for border security as an important component of national security, he has a better chance of bringing together the party and winning.
Please warn me if it's rated Gay.
Actually, LtdGovt and JustShutUpAndTakeIt are the Homer and Jethro team from the Giulliani campaign office. Only, they're not quite as talented.
Doesn't matter the thread, these two come on and prop up Rudy and rip at Conservatives.
Just give up on trying to talk to them.
It's no use.
Paul
There is this new Rosie O'Donnell wing of the GOP...
They support the homos and hate the Religious folks.
But since I am an atheist, their anti-Christian blather has no affect.
I am tired of these people who try to pass some perversion of nature off as a normal thing. It is a fetish, a religion of deviance and I will not bend my knee in acquiescence to it.
I wish TED NUGENT was there at CPAC... That would really make these feminized males want to take their Midol!
Its amusing how they think they can convince people by calling them 'clowns'.
Today's GOP attitude towards conservatives defined - 'cause & effect? whats that?'
Sarge, have you given a close look at Duncan Hunter? Please do. If we don't support a real conservative leading up to the primaries by supporting them to win the GOP nomination, then we'll never get the opportunity to vote for one in the general election. If the 2008 general election comes down to Guliani and Hitlery, then the liberals will have won either way.
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