Richard Viguerie Rejects GOP ‘Litmus Test’ Proposal and Slams . . . Karl Rove?
posted at 5:57 pm on December 3, 2009 by The Other McCain
Few men alive have done more to build the American conservative movement than direct-mail fundraising pioneer Richard Viguerie. In recent years, Viguerie has applied his Old School savvy to New Media, with major online and e-mail operations. Obviously, he’s not afraid to be controversial in the blogosphere:
While well intentioned, the litmus test proposal would do little to solve the two fundamental problems within the Republican Party: bad leadership and conservative acquiescence to bad leadership.
RINOs such as Dede Scozzafava and Florida Governor Charlie Crist aren’t the real issue. Scozzafava, Crist, and others who rightly deserve the “RINO” tag are merely an annoyance. Besides irritating their fellow Republicans with their liberalism, RINOs haven’t really had a great deal of impact on the direction of Republican party policies over the past decade.
The current Republican leadership has consistently supported our national slide to socialism. I’m talking about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader John Boehner, and the leading architect of Republican endorsed socialist-statism, former Bush White House political advisor Karl Rove. . . .
National conservatives who want to fix the Republican Party shouldn’t waste their time forcing symbolic litmus test votes on the Republican National Committee. Instead, they should consider focusing their considerable energies on solving the real problem. Now is the time to put new leaders at the helm of the House, the Senate, the RNC, the NRCC, and the NRSC.
A litmus test is only as good as the character of the person who endorses it. It’s easy for professional politicians to say they support something in order to pass a test that gives them access to campaign cash. The more important test is true devotion to the limited government principles embodied in our Constitution. . . .
Read the whole thing. Whether you agree or disagree, Viguerie is not a man whose opinions can be taken lightly.
(Crossposted at Not One Red Cent.)
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Lets start with less government by axing the DOE 8/04/1977 (to lessen our dependence on foreign oil) 24.2 billion budget with 16,000 fed. employees and 100,000 contract employees. Great job huh?
Department of education. Turn it back to the States responsibility.
Ax the death tax completely.
It would be a wonderful start.
mixplix on December 3, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Of all the Republican Party’s broken promises, their failure to eliminate the federal Department of Education — which is nothing but a giveaway for the teachers’ unions –certainly near the top of any list of the most damaging.
The Other McCain on December 3, 2009 at 6:41 PM
My problem with the 10 policy statements is there is nothing to legally bind the candidate to them. Say Candidate answers 9 of 10 correctly then after winning abandons most of those positions which turn out to be words on paper. Where do we go to get a refund? Voters are stuck with a hypocrite who said whatever was necessary to get campaign cash.
It is the leadership that needs to be replaced.
pdigaudio on December 3, 2009 at 6:42 PM
And whoever replaces them needs to keep in mind that they are also replaceable.
The Other McCain on December 3, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Who would these new leaders be?
Theres little time to try and pry the old bricks out of the foundation and polish up some new turds. We’ll have to f*&k that chicken with the D*^K we’ve got.
Just my opinion.
Itchee Dryback on December 3, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Good grief son, you talk to your mother with that mouth?
Brian1972 on December 3, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Viguerie is right-on here.
Don’t know how he figures this. Bush II wasn’t a RINO? He didn’t try to sell-out our sovereignty? He didn’t famously scr*w everyone who had prescription drug insurance? He didn’t attack the First Amendment by signing McCain-Feingold-Bush? If the base hadn’t thrown a fit, is there any question of a Justice Harriet Miers today?
RINO president + RINO Congress + McCain = Obama.
They learned nothing from the b-slap of 2006.
Feedie on December 4, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Pablo on December 4, 2009 at 8:35 AM