Conservative Icon Says GOP Faces 'Looming Disaster', Leadership Must 'Resign Immediately'!

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Conservative Icon Says Republicans Face 'Looming Disaster', Calls on Leadership to 'Resign Immediately'
In the Bargain, Richard Viguerie Wins a Rare, But Much Sought BRAD BLOG 'Intellectually Honest Conservative Award'...

(NOTE: Viguerie will be joining me as my guest to talk about his blistering article, on Friday, 5/16 at 5pm PT when I fill in to Guest Host on the syndicated Peter B. Collins Show during my normal weekly guest slot. Please tune in on air, or via net at http://www.PeterBCollins.com, and/or call in! - BF)

Another winner for The BRAD BLOG's rarely bestowed, but much sought after "Intellectually Honest Conservative Award."

Today's winner (in actuality, this year's winner, such as it's been a pretty dim year so far), conservative icon and author Richard Viguerie, who yesterday called at the "Ultimate John McCain" website for the entire Republican Leadership, from George W. Bush on down, to "resign immediately".

He charges "disaster is looming" following the Republican loss of the third previously "safe" U.S. House seat in a row on Tuesday, in Mississippi's special election where Bush reportedly defeated Kerry 62% to 37% in 2004.

In its wake, Viguerie names names, and declares the entirety of the GOP leadership has "failed --- or outright betrayed --- the conservative voters who put them in their positions...The hard work of the last 50 years by millions of conservative campaign workers, donors, candidates, writers, intellectuals, and activists has been trashed."

"The conservative movement has been set back 10-20 years – possibly even permanently," pens the man once referred to as the conservative "funding father" and creator of political direct mail fundraising. The "party Establishment...has brought the party down," he writes, adding "the party must clean house. The party leadership should resign immediately."...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5990

[Joanne98]

1. K&R

[seemslikeadream]

2. 'Resign Immediately'

[LakeSamish706]

3. That is great news... I know that many of us would love to see the door...

hit asshats like Boehner and Blunt in the butt.

[kenny blankenship]

4. The Reagan Revolution is Over

Resignations are futile, cleaning house is futile, you have no chance to survive. Make your time.

[AlinPA]

5. If we pick up 25+ house seats and 8+ senate seats I'll feel better. nt

[NewJeffCT]

35. I know, I'm not counting my chickens or anything like that just yet

while the signs are good for us picking up at least 4-5 seats in the Senate, I won't really celebrate until the day after election day when I see President-elect Obama on TV and the media talking about his mandate...

[musette_sf]

6. don't trust Richard Viguerie!!!

he is largely responsible for spreading misinformation and lies that have gotten the US to where it is today. never forget!!!

the enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend.

[formercia]

8. Be sure to put him on the list as well

All of his hateful mass-mailings and publishing that reich-wing pulp fiction the likes of Coultegeist and others of her ilk. Not to mention all of the financial backing from master Moon.

He's just pissed because Junior failed in his mission and he wants to salvage the disaster if he can.

Fuck him.

[musette_sf]

9. exactly n/t

[Agony]

7. Alert! Alert! All conservatives should immediately fall on their sword!

Honor before Pride and all that...

[spanone]

10. i don't trust these bastards in any goddam direction....they are plotting, scheming and coniving

to win this election. there is too much at stake.

[pretzel4gore]

12. there's enough of them with some wit

that they would realize that a win for the repukkes in Nov would truly spell the end of the USA as a viable nation- if the damage already done is fixable, it will take democratic party to fix it....this 'smart' group possibly is too small to affect things, but, they represent what must be nagging doubts even among repub extremists. Viguerie should go to prison: he schemed to overthrow representative (majority) rule. That's actually the only way a truly rightwing regime can gain power (by lying to electorate)...and literally making the newsmedia a suborned, or bribed criminal operation (the wealth of top journalists since reagan has exploded, -peter jwenning left a $58 million estate!)...yet these monstrous truths will be ignored, and Viguerie's nonsense will be, nudge wink, accepted at face value

[defendandprotect]

32. Most of them are dumb and/or perverted . . .

however, the one I really fear --- though dumb and perverted in his own ways --- is Newt Gingrich.

There's something about him that sells --- !!!

Underneath, he's a really disgusting guy --

[davekriss]

11. If it were only true!!

"The conservative movement has been set back 10-20 years – possibly even permanently" -- nothing could delight me more!!

[baby_mouse]

13. Ahhhhh... SLURP... a latte moment... NT

[georgecolombo]

14. An Important Message for the GOP Leadership

Please guys, this Viguerie guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Stay, stay. You're doing a great job. Just keep doing what you're doing.

Really.

[Jade Fox]

15. "The conservative movement has been set back....possibly permanently.....

That's right, because you can't stop change or make time go backwards. Attempts to do so will always fail. :dunce:

[Caretha]

16. From his lips to God's ears

"The conservative movement has been set back 10-20 years – possibly even permanently

[Kip Humphrey]

17. Is it Citizens Tribunal time yet? /nt

[Stinky The Clown]

18. He's been saying the same thing for at least the last two years.

[defendandprotect]

19. I guess "LIBERAL" isn't a dirty word any more . . . huh?

I always thought that was a crock anyway ---

I don't see the word "fascists" in his comments, however . . .
perhaps he still doesn't quite understand what "consdervatives" have wrought---???

[pretzel4gore]

26. the 'Logical Song' was way back in the 70's...'liberal' always dirty word

in "Babbitt' which was from 1926, the bizmen who George looked up to and associated with, feared and despised 'liberals'....this might well be a psychosis affecting a small western social demographic, and costing humanity literally hundreds of trillions of dollars. Yet they see themselves as 'patriots' and solid citizens and the 'salt of the earth' yet despise any self interest that doesn't benefit them (or their superiors)
Human life is spiritual first, then physical. Basing entire history and forming the institutions of society using LIES results in endless of our old men/women dying in a state of abject horror- they too late know it was almost all a lie....we've been doing that for long time. No wonder John Lennon could say 'the world is run by insane people, and i actually fear for my life ...' etc. And it's plainly true. The men/women running not just the country, but town/cities/neighborhoods seem almost determined to act totally utterlY crazed, and pretend it's normal. Even ww2, for example. Who gave hitler his long leash? Who tried to fukk Uncle Joe Stalin? Who betrayed the Spanish republic? Who nuked Japan's cities to 'teach them' a lesson? But look what it cost them, or rather us.....

[defendandprotect]

28. Unfortunately ....

this has probably been true of liberal ideals since the beginning of time ---
versus the few violent among us who are out of sync with human values.

Our society has been shaped by violence and as we can see from Bushco we are still suffering
from the same gene pool which brought us much of that violence.

Patriarchy and its underpinning --- organized patriarchal religion's "Manifest Destiny" and "Man's Dominion Over Nature" -- provide the license for exploitation of nature, natural resources, animal-life --- and even other human beings according to various myths of inferiority.

Truth has a long arc -- we must continue to push for truth.

Who could imagine that we would be here in 2008 going backwards on TORTURE?

[pretzel4gore]

30. reality versus fiction...

i watched chris mathews confront a rw hack named kevin james and try to have james define what exactly he meant by appeasement- which invokes the chamberlaine story- in connection with geebush's fantastic nonsense in the knesset etc....mathews never did get james to just say 'we gave up Czechoslovakia's interest for peace agreement' since james would lose his basic argument by saying so. But that ONE snippet from the pigmedia took several minutes, and james is a nobody, compared to, say oreilly or limbah etc! And standing by, chewing the cud, are the people, who see what happened and, in this case, will recognise the fraud that kevin james represents, but it took all that effort! (i resent the idea i'm better informed then the punks on talkradio etc, but i am. And it's not just worldview either- they literally turn history upside down anytime it's convenient for them....goodammit!)

[defendandprotect]

31. Not only history upside . . ..

they are supremely confident that no one seen on corporate-media will be permitted
to connect the Bush family and support for Hitler, nor the Iran-Contra no October Surprise events ...!!!!

[samsingh]

20. when there's a mess on a stairway you use massive water spray

disinfectant, and powerful vacuum cleaners, and sweepers to wash away the filth. this is no different than the filthy repug party.

[bonito]

21. K & MFen R !

O8)

[DFW]

22. I've known this guy for years

He is still pretty sharp-tongued and as opinionated as ever (thinks Chis Matthews
is a "liberal" commentator!!!!!!!!!), but has mellowed out a bit over the years.
Seeing all your life's efforts go up in smoke can do that to you. He can't stand
the Bushies, even wrote a book about them entitled "Conservatives Betrayed."

Politically, he's the Prince of Darkness to us. He's very much steeped in the
Southern Christian propaganda, truly believes it all. That's the way he was raised,
and still tows the line, and would love for a return to the Reagan years.

But, he also happens to be a hell of a nice guy, which threw me for a loop, as I
was expecting to hate his guts when we were first introduced almost 10 years ago.
When I invited him to The Freedom Toast's show in Washington, I had meant it as a
joke, as it was guaranteed to offend him something fierce. Nevertheless, he blew
me away by actually showing up, said he "leaves his guns at the door," and came to
see "how the other side was thinking."

One thing he has realized (that so many Republicans have not) is that "conservative"
and Republican do NOT mean the same thing. He wants them to go back to doing so, as
the Democratic Party will not (I hope!!!) be embodying his ideals any time in the
near future. Nonetheless, if we can de-couple the idea that conservative necessarily
means Republican, then we will have a chance to pick up more seats in Congress like
we just did in Mississippi-01. First dismantle their voter ranks, THEN try to bring
the right-leaning Democrats back into the fold, once in office. That's what they did
to us, and with devastating effect. If there could be "Reagan Democrats," then let there
now be "Obama Republicans." This is what Richard is seeing, and, for once, I hope his
predictions come true.

[tanyev]

23. That would be the change we deserve.

:)

[Vote4Change]

24. Good Idea ... but for the Wrong Reason

Yes. I agree that whole damned authoritarian, corrupt, neocon administration should resign. However, NOT because of the damage they have done to the poor Republican party who elected and blindly supported them. But rather because of the far more significant damage they have inflicted on our Consitution and our Country, not to mention other countries in the world!

I guess as long as the Bush administration is just killing over four thousand of our brave fighting men and women (more U.S. citizens than Osama bin Laden killed on 9/11) along with tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Iraqis; destroying our Constitution, Economy, Security and Morality; or lying to and misleading the citizens of this country ... then it's just hunky-dory to support them, voice their inane talking points and shield them from appropriate legal action. But let them harm the Repulsivecan Party and we should rise up and demand their resignation.

Gimme a Break!! Where was this doofus and his righteous indignation when King George the Prevaricator raped this country of everything that really matters during the past 7 years? You asked for this "looming disaster" and I hope like hell you get it full force and it takes your pathetic party 100 years to recover from it!

[AntiFascist]

25. Wow, that's encouraging...

the Bush Admin really is destroying the Republican Party. McCain is now calling for the troops to be home in 4 years. Soon, he will have to completely turn on Bush, otherwise the election will be a no-brainer for most people.

[CANDO]

27. It's a party built upon rhetoric, bullshit and bluster.

Endless Terry Schiavo-like morality plays is no way to govern.

[Marr]

29. You know, the current GOP leadership hasn't betrayed their constituents

any more than their past leaders have. They've been actively working to undermine the middle class in this country since they began. That's what got them together, for crying out loud. They always disguised it, but that's what it was.

The only new thing about the Bush-era GOP leadership was that they put all their class warfare right out in the open and tried to call it a virtue. On the occasions when they did try to dress up their agenda, they only put the thinnest of disguises on it, like "Private Accounts" for Social Security. They wanted to kick the ball all the way down the field, not just inch along as their predecessors did. They pushed too hard, and many of their own constituents came to see what they were doing.

We can't let these people put off their failures on a few current politicians. The messes we're in aren't accidental. They're the intentional results of conservative policies.

[DU GrovelBot]

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34. How is this supposed to be funny . . .. ??? .... ???