Richard Viguerie, one of THE big old-time leaders of the Republican party, just sent this to his email list to which
AmericaBLOG subscribes. Bush is in serious
trouble:
Conservatives Feel Betrayed
“President Bush Blinks on Supreme Court Nominees”
"Congratulations are due to Ralph Neas, Nan Aron, and Chuck Schumer for going toe-to-toe with President Bush and forcing him to blink,” said
conservative activist Richard A. Viguerie. “
Liberals have successfully cowed President Bush by scaring him off from nominating a known
conservative, strict constructionist to the Court, leaving conservatives fearful of which direction the Court will go.”
“President Bush desperately needed to have an ideological fight with the Left to redefine himself and re-energize
his political base, which is in
shock and dismay over his big government policies,” Viguerie added.
“With their lack of strong, identifiable records, President Bush’s choices for Supreme Court nominees seem designed more to avoid a fight with the
extreme Left than to appeal to his conservative base,” lamented Viguerie.
Many conservatives worry that without verifiable records, President Bush’s Supreme Court nominees will be more like the liberal Justice Souter than
the conservative, strict constructionists Scalia and Thomas.
Remembering and still dismayed about how his father, President George H. W. Bush (the 41st), lied to conservatives and American voters by saying he
was a conservative and expressly stating he would not raise taxes, conservatives fear President George W. Bush (the 43rd) has done the same by failing
to nominate well-known conservative, strict constructionists to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“
President Bush has presided over the largest growth in government since Lyndon Johnson, and now he appears willing to lose all credibility with
conservative voters by failing to fulfill his campaign vow to nominate an openly Scalia- or Thomas-like justice,” Viguerie concluded.
Conservatives are also exceedingly disappointed in the Republican Leadership in Congress as well. Conservatives will now begin to seriously consider
why they should continue to give their support –money, labor, and votes – to Republican politicians who take their conservative base for granted
by continually lying to them.
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Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of American Target Advertising, pioneered ideological and political direct mail and has been called “the funding
father of the conservative movement” for his role in forming dozens of conservative organizations. He is the author of four books, including
“America’s Right Turn,” (Bonus Books, 2004).
This means not only
serious money but the
blood, sweat and tears of the Grand
Old Party's base is realizing it's been
fooled
again. You simply can't make a virtual party of slapped together wedges that literally hate each other work. There's is no cohesion in empty
rhetoric, and no "fearless leader" can possibly hope to do anything but
disappoint them ALL.
I am
not saying "RINOS," libertarians, constitutionalists and moral authoritarians
still voting Republican against their better
judgement should join the Democratic Party either. No really, we're fine. We actually agree on our platform and direction and don't want you crazy
people. We like being
the mainstream populist movement consistently in step with the American majority on every single
real issue for
the past century.
But all you little fringes of society wedged together as a virtual "majority" under action movie stars, criminals and fundamentalist doomsday cults
really need to move on with your lives and quit doing this to yourselves. You're
never happy with the outcome. Always furious when you realize
you don't matter to the Republican Party. Yet you just keep doing it and doing it over and over and over again.
This is nothing new. The reality based community has been telling you this for decades! The Republican Party is a JOKE and
you're the
punchline.
Here's
a list of 50 other US parties to help you get started with the
rest of your life.
[edit on 4-10-2005 by RANT]
