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Related: About this forumConservative offers $10K for plan to overtake GOP establishment
The Liberty Prize" would be awarded to anyone who helps conservatives "take over the Republican Party"
BY JILLIAN RAYFIELD
Have a grand scheme to help conservatives oust establishment Republicans, take over the party, and win the White House in 2016? Well, you could just win $10,000 for your trouble.
Richard Viguerie, the Conservative fund-raiser and chairman of Conservative HQ, announced The Liberty Prize, a contest that will award a $10,000 prize, plus fame, appreciation and the opportunity to save America to the conservative who comes up with the best plan to take over the Republican Party, win the November 2016 elections, and govern America by 2017.
Viguerie, who was a big fan of Rick Santorum in the 2012 presidential race, writes in his announcement:
The most important political battle in America is not between Republicans and Democrats or between conservatives and liberals. It is the battle for control of the Republican Party between establishment big government Republicans and limited government, constitutional conservatives. It has become clear that establishment Republican and Democratic politicians have failed America because they have both accepted big government as the solution to every problem.
He continues by referencing Karl Roves new initiatve to steamroll far-right conservatives, called the Conservative Victory Project, which he writes means that conservatives must have a well-organized and well-thought-out plan to take control of the GOP from the grassroots up.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/02/19/conservative_offers_10k_for_plan_to_overtake_gop_establishment/
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Conservative offers $10K for plan to overtake GOP establishment (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2013
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Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)1. This cage match
just keeps getting better.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)2. My thoughts exactly...
and I was also thinking, this is going to get even better. They're just reading the menu at this point; cannibalization will commence shortly. I gotta get several cases of popcorn
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)3. Yep...
we'll new poppers by the time this is over...
muriel_volestrangler
(102,098 posts)4. You mean that photoshpping Rove as a Nazi didn't work???
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251288586
Astounding.
Why does this look more like Viguerie wanting to update his database of all the gullible wingnuts, while getting someone to write a section of his book, rather than the way he's going to 'take over the Republican party'?
Astounding.
Why does this look more like Viguerie wanting to update his database of all the gullible wingnuts, while getting someone to write a section of his book, rather than the way he's going to 'take over the Republican party'?
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)5. They've apologized...
but it's still okay to compare the President to Hitler
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251288600
tanyev
(44,003 posts)6. Yeah, Karl's shaking in his boots tonight.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)7. They're going to get responses like "Uphold the Second Amendment!" and
"Conservative principles!" and "Impeach teh Muslim Kenyan!!11!" and "Sarah-Cuda!!" But in the end, they'll quietly go with voter disenfranchisement.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)8. I don't suppose they would be open to a counter offer?
to just go away for $10,000???
Yavin4
(35,818 posts)9. This is sooo good. It's gotta be fattening.
Nothing this delicious is calorie free.
jerseyjack
(1,361 posts)10. Here's my entry...
"Get Brains, Morans."
Now where's my 10K ?
Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)11. Here's mine
from another thread here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251288629
someone should send it to them