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Readers respond to Richard Viguerie’s election analyses, Part II
November 13, 2008
Richard Viguerie
Conservative leaders know that the revival of the conservative movement will be generated through the energy and passion of the grassroots.  Here’s a look at some more of the unprecedented number of comments we’ve received at ConservativeHQ.com in response to Richard Viguerie’s election-related news releases and blog entries.  Take a look and leave a comment of your own.
Conservative leaders know that the revival of the conservative movement will be generated through the energy and passion of the grassroots.  Here’s a look at some more of the unprecedented number of comments we’ve received at ConservativeHQ.com in response to Richard Viguerie’s election-related news releases and blog entries.  Take a look and leave a comment of your own.

-    My sentiments exactly!!!

-    Good job, go for it, and I agree. Our country is going to fail rapidly.

-    I agree and will support the boycott of the R. party until I see a change… we have been betrayed. IE: illegal immigrants, border security, and our candidates not telling all the story of their opponents and now look what we’ve elected. Keep me informed.

-    You are absolutely right. They’re done.

-    How about a new grassroots program, DRIP/TBA. Don’t Re-elect Incumbent Politicians. Take Back America! We vote everybody out at the first convenient opportunity, and no one can run for office while holding one. No more that one term at a time, thus no one can spend half their term campaigning for re-election. Maximum on terms, and no one can retire under a pension plan. No more Thurmonds, Kennedys, Byrds or Kerrys.

-    I’m sure you must not have intended to include Dr. Ron Paul in your “All”! He has done all he could do and continues to do so to vote against unconstitutional bills and educate and try to raise up good leaders. With Dr. Paul as an exception, I agree with you concerning the others!

-    Absolutely correct. As was your blog blaming McCain/Rove for the loss. 100% correct. How do we make it happen?

-    I agree, and have thought so for a few years. BUT all of the leadership of the party should resign, including non-elected ones. Perhaps the Republican Party itself should be “started over”, even renamed. The name should not have “con” in it, and the neocons were/are certainly con artists.

-    I fully agree! I have not contributed to the Republican Party in awhile and repeated tell them why.

-    I withdrew my support a long time ago. Support the Libertarian and Independent parties. Support the Free State Initiatives. Support all “Invest in (state name) initiatives”. Support Alaska’s secessionist movement. Support anything but the Republicrats for they are the traitors to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

-    Now we’re getting someplace.

-    I agree. The GOP will not get another dime from me.

-    Your key phrase here, as I see it, is “principled conservatives”. Good luck in finding some. Things would have been a lot better off in the last eight years if some principled conservatives had been at the helm of our government instead of some people misusing the terminology in order to pull the wool over the nation’s eyes while they trampled on every conservative tenet in the book. Like the old phrase says, being inside of a church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than being inside a garage makes you a car.

-    I agree with you 100%. We need more Jeb Hensarlings in the House, DeMints in the Senate, and Bobby Jindals in the governorships. It all starts from the grassroots level. Republicans will be back in power, that is “real” Republicans (Reagan-like principled conservatives). I say this too because there is no way on God’s green earth that freedom loving Americans are going to put up with any far left, radical nonsense that Obama and the Obama mania team of Biden, Pelosi, Reed, Dean, etc… may in all likelihood stuff down our throats. We are a center to the right country.

I’m hopeful for the future. We live in the greatest country on Earth!!!

There was a silver lining as a result of the election… Traditional marriage amendments passed in California, Arizona, and Florida; a definite victory for righteousness and conservativism. Praise God and the awesome institution of marriage He created!

I hope we have the opportunity to vote to protect and preserve marriage in New Jersey.

-    We need you to keep at it. This time is critical and we need your expertise and skill to return the GOP to Reagan’s best.

-    We Conservatives need you or someone with the tools to organize us. We are scattered, we are not a group, and more than ever we need to organize. We weren’t organized enough even in an election. WHAT will happen when the Fairness Doctrine is reinstated? What will happen when they come for our guns? Please organize us. I believe we need to organize the ability to have a militia immediately. I will personally die before they turn us socialist and they will.

-    I’ll tell you what is wrong with the Republican Party, at least here in Alaska. It has been co-opted by Liberals. Our state legislature is full of Liberals who run as Republicans because Democrats can’t get elected in most districts. Then they go to Juneau and act like Liberals, vote for higher business taxes, more state government, and join forces with Democrats even when they had majorities, leaving the actual conservatives in a minority. We need to deny practicing Liberals the right to call themselves Republicans. John McCain is a good example, and also a good example of a Liberal Republican. If we had nominated a real conservative for the presidency and ignored the moderates, I believe the conservative base would have produced a victory.

John van Doodewaard, Neal, lonnie Painter, …
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  1. As a Conservative Canadian, I'm very saddened with the USA Presidential election result. Which produced a win for mr. Barack Obama who is an extreme ultra left liberal. This does not bode well for the Judeo/Christian cause. When conservatives no longer act and speak like conservatives the liberals win. The root cause of the present crisis is as I see it that as Nations Canada as well as the USA, we have departed from God's Holy Word the Bible. Thereby losing all sense of moral direction and righteousness. If we truly seek happiness and prosperity, we must return to the service of the only true God as He reveals Himself in His Holy Word the Bible. God says in His Word "Blessed is the Nation who fears the Lord". We do well to remember this in all our endevours. When we neglect to serve the Lord all our endevours are doomed to failure.
  2. I read Alan Keyes filed suit today in California on Obamas lack of eligibility. http://www.therightsideoflife.com/?p=878
  3. I guess some will not be happy until the GOP is the party of the dull, ignorant and dimwitted of Palin and the human skeleton Ann Coulter. Forget about important issues concentrate on petty push button ideas like "hey he pals around with terrorists" this will certainly appeal to the red neck, racist fringe of our party and work them into a frenzy. This is sure to get us a lot of free publicity and gather all the misfits in the nation to the cause. I guess the idea is that these petty minded fools will be easy to herd around and when we gather up enough we will take power back from the Dems and rule once again.
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Richard Viguerie, in Conservatives Betrayed, foresaw collapse of GOP and describes the road back for conservatives
November 12, 2008
Richard Viguerie
     Richard A. Viguerie’s 2006 book Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (Bonus Books) offers a roadmap for a conservative comeback following the disastrous elections of 2006 and 2008.

     The book calls on conservatives to organize themselves as a “Third Force” that can influence both major political parties. 

     Viguerie points to environmentalist, labor union, and race-based groups as models for “Third Force”-type organizations.  These groups are major political players, he says, but they are independent.  They have their own members, money, and issues.  “They are free to punish or reward politicians based on their behavior.”
     Richard A. Viguerie’s 2006 book Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (Bonus Books) offers a roadmap for a conservative comeback following the disastrous elections of 2006 and 2008.

     The book calls on conservatives to organize themselves as a “Third Force” that can influence both major political parties. 

     Viguerie points to environmentalist, labor union, and race-based groups as models for “Third Force”-type organizations.  These groups are major political players, he says, but they are independent.  They have their own members, money, and issues.  “They are free to punish or reward politicians based on their behavior.”

     Conservatives, according to Viguerie, will respond to the 2008 election by creating their own Third Force organizations.  These groups will deal with social issues, the culture, immigration, taxes, health care, government spending, judicial appointments, the environment, excessive government regulation, schools, and the concerns of working class and small business class Americans – “literally thousands of grassroots organizations reaching every community in this country.”

     Conservatives Betrayed was one of the earliest assaults on Big Government Republicanism, the governing philosophy that wrecked the economy, ruined the GOP “brand,” and brought the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Democrats to power. 

     Since the book was published, its central argument – that Big Government Republicanism would be a disaster for the GOP and for the country – has been proven correct.

     In the book, Viguerie calls on conservatives to “Cut off your support of the Republican National Committee and other party fundraising committees;” to instead “Give 100% of your political donations to principled conservative causes and candidates;” and to “Demand sweeping changes in the Republican congressional leadership.” 

     In recent weeks, Viguerie has renewed his call for conservatives to cut off support for the GOP until the party changes its leadership, top to bottom.
Anna Penna, Paleocon, TLynn
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  1. Since Adam and Eve weak men have been blaming the woman that God gave them for their failures. Some things never change!
  2. As I've been saying for at least thirty years, what we need is a Conservative Party. While Reagan did not give us a party, he did provide a rallying point for conservatives of all stripes. The results of the failure to build a party to carry on his work is only too obvious. I have never been a Democrat or a Republican as neither meets my personal standards. I have voted Republican simply because there was no viable alternative. I cam to this website thinking I had found a home, only to find you were backing the same old group that had been disappointing me for decades, promising Conservatism, but delivering only the same old empty promises. If you are serious about change (I hesitate to use that overworked and consistently misused term), count me in. What do we do now?
  3. I'm ready for this move. I voted Republican because that was the only choice to make, better than the alternative. It doesn't make any sense at all to have voted for the worst situation. Now, we are all going to suffer under the new administration along with those who put them there. It makes me very angry to know now hard I've worked all my life trying to uphold principles, values, work ethics and a love for our country and the foundations it was created from to see someone change it so drastically that I've ended up working for nothing so that the "new government change" can take everything I've earned. I've tried to be a productive citizen, to leave this world a little better place before I leave, to take care of family and my own needs so that I'm not a burden to society and for what? It's past time to do something.
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Richard Viguerie: Conservatives deserve credit for resignations of Blunt, Putnam
November 10, 2008
Richard Viguerie
     Conservatives deserve credit for the resignations of Roy Blunt and Adam Putnam from their positions as the second and third-ranking House Republicans, Richard A. Viguerie, the Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said. 

     The resignations show that “Grassroots conservatives are being heard,” Viguerie said.  “Conservatives who make up the base of the Republican Party know that we will never get to the political Promised Land with the leaders who got us into this mess.”
     Conservatives deserve credit for the resignations of Roy Blunt and Adam Putnam from their positions as the second and third-ranking House Republicans, Richard A. Viguerie, the Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said. 

     The resignations show that “Grassroots conservatives are being heard,” Viguerie said.  “Conservatives who make up the base of the Republican Party know that we will never get to the political Promised Land with the leaders who got us into this mess.”

     Said Viguerie: “The so-called ‘cranky conservatives’ – those who refused to fall in line behind the Republican Party, and who maintained their independence, at the price of being ridiculed as ‘impossible to please’ – deserve credit for forcing the Republicans to change leaders. 

     “And credit should also go to those Republicans in Congress who risked their careers by demanding changes at the top.
 
     “In addition, Congressmen Blunt and Putnam deserve thanks for putting the future of their party ahead of their own ambitions.  It’s nothing personal.  These are good men, but the Republican Party needs to go in a different direction with new leaders.
 
     “Now it’s time to finish the job.  The Republican leaders in the House and Senate, at the Republican National Committee, and everyone else responsible for this debacle, must go.” 

     Viguerie said that includes House Minority Leader John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the Republican Party chairman, Mike Duncan.  It also includes Congressman Tom Cole, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is responsible for electing Republicans to the House.

     Viguerie noted that conservatives have been calling for new GOP leadership for years, beginning before the disastrous 2006 election.  For example, in his book Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause, (Bonus Books, August 2006), Viguerie called on conservatives to “cut off your support of the Republican National Committee and other party fundraising committees” and “demand sweeping changes in the Republican congressional leadership.”

     Just last week, on the morning after the election, Viguerie said, “The [Republican] congressional leadership must be replaced with principled conservatives.  If the congressional leaders refuse to resign, grassroots conservatives should cut off their support – their financial support, and their volunteer support.” 

     Viguerie was not alone in demanding new GOP leadership.  Last July, the influential Lincoln Club of Orange County, California vowed to cut off fund unless the leadership changed.  Columnist Robert Novak said of the declaration: “The Lincoln Club of Orange County is telling the GOP leaders of both the House and Senate . . . [t]hey must go – or else lose big money.”
Hollis Stanford, Victor Hoover, Suzanne Curran, …
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  1. "Conservatives deserve credit for the resignations of Roy Blunt and Adam Putnam from their positions as the second and third-ranking House Republicans, Richard A. Viguerie, the Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said" I was certainly Glad to see them both go...Many of us have tried to oust Blunt from congress for the past few years...all to no avail! oldguy from Missouri
  2. I will not be giving any financial support to the Republican party until I'm convinced the party will be supporting conservative values. I hope this is the beginning of real change.
  3. Now is the time for all groundlevel conservative warriors to become the grating wheel of Republican politics! I concur that new leadership is necessary however, it is vital that we bring in those who can and will clearly and logically define our issues. It is vital that this new leadership define the issues that we are adament about instead of always reacting to the liberal Democrat opponents on issues that they define. We in Virginia have watched 4 election cycles pass by with devastating results mainly due to our candidates reacting instead of proactively stating their issues and solutions. We own several of the issues but do our candidates bring them forward in a forceful way? NO!! Bring on the newbies, let's see if they can do better and if not out they can go too. Put the next batch on probation through 2009. We can review their performance and decide if they are worthy to carry the mantle of Conservative!!
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Readers respond to Richard Viguerie’s election analyses
November 07, 2008
Richard Viguerie
Conservative leaders know that the revival of the conservative movement will be generated through the energy and passion of the grassroots.  Here’s a look at some of the unprecedented number of comments we’ve received at ConservativeHQ.com in response to Richard Viguerie’s election-related news releases and blog entries.  Take a look and leave a comment of your own.
Conservative leaders know that the revival of the conservative movement will be generated through the energy and passion of the grassroots.  Here’s a look at some of the unprecedented number of comments we’ve received at ConservativeHQ.com in response to Richard Viguerie’s election-related news releases and blog entries.  Take a look and leave a comment of your own.

-    You finally got it right.

-    I hope he’s right and that a major demographic shift in the voters hasn’t occurred instead. I’m very concerned illegal immigrants played a significant role in electing Obama

-    I couldn’t agree more!

-    Gee, I couldn’t agree more! We’ve been saying that for four years. G’luck!

-    How can you say this is just a defeat for big spending Republicans? Obama will destroy this country. Courts, military, everything will be destroyed. Not to mention the destruction to the quality of health care. Who knows, I will probably end up losing the lousy job that I hate. McCain was 10 times a better choice than that Muslim thug.

-    I do not claim to be a politician, nor do I possess the credentials of a political scientist. I feel betrayed by the Republican Party in many ways. Firstly, their failure to implement conservative ideas and fostering and fomenting big government. What, then, is the distinction between the parties? Secondly, the viciousness and lack of quarter in this race totally frustrated me. Seeing John McCain trying to play the gentlemen reminded of 1996 and Bob Dole. The running against the Democrat Party is a good example of the expression, “bringing a knife to a gunfight.” We are back to where we were in 1992. Yes, two years later, things were so bad with Clinton, there was fear of some form of revolutionary takeover by the militia! What brought about the change in 1994 and got the rotten Democrats out of 40 years of power in congress were the efforts of Rush Limbaugh and the unity created in those congressional races by Newt Gingrich. That was why they had to get rid of Gingrich. Just remember, Clinton did manage to get re-elected! Do not think the Democrats have forgotten – they now have to get rid of talk radio, starting with Rush, and that will be the purpose of the Fairness Doctrine, which will probably be signed after the Freedom of Choice Act. Think of how many babies will be aborted with Obama running things! Regrettable that his mother did not exercise her choice with regard to him!

Seeing what I have seen, what with ACORN, the amount of questionable money Obama raised from whatever sources, and Obama’s constant lies, I feel it is time to either work to destroy the Democrat Party, or just found a new party. The Republican Party simply does not know how to lead or fight. This is not a gentlemen’s combat, it is brass knuckles all the way! Frankly, it appears as if they were all neutered at some point! They are sadly lacking in the genital department, and if there is one area where the Democrats have no deficit, it is surely not in this department. They do what they want and worry about it later, just as in this election!
You are quite correct. Obama has nothing for me… starting with abortion, then moving to religion, then going to guns, and then to taxes. Nothing whatsoever!

-    I too feel until we as Republicans return to our conservative values, we are doomed to repeat history. I liked Sarah Palin. She was a breath of fresh air and I for one do not believe McCain would have gotten the votes he had without her. I look at our own Colorado races and we lost a senate race to an extreme Liberal who ran a better campaign. John McCain refused to go after Obama on many issues and then he voted for the bailout so that AIG executives could get back rubs and have their toenails painted. When Americans are watching their jobs go overseas and health care costs soaring, they get angry. We need to get back to self-reliance. We need to follow our constitution, which Obama has stated he would like to get rid of as he said it does not help America. It has kept us strong for over 200 years. I guess that’s not good enough. He wants to make us a third world nation. We need to stop rewarding mediocrity and reward excellence.

-    Obama is going to be president for 8 years. We need to start working for 2016.

-    Glad I did not vote. McCain and Obama are both criminals, and their Parties, Republican and Democrat, are co-conspirators. You’re all farcical fools to ignore the Highest Crimes by both criminals against America’s Soul, The US Constitution. Their cronies are a hatching swarm in congress too.

-    This guy is usually right. We have been disgusted with some of W’s actions. He is not a conservative. He has kept us safe since 9/11 but he allowed over-spending. He has socialistic leanings. His dad probably made suggestions for his awful appointments and his mom is a busy-body. No one in that family really likes her. She runs everyone. Maybe she was at the bottom of the appointments like first Secretary of the Treasury who cried, wrote a book about mistreatment by W and is still crying.

I am tempted to get the book.

Republicans – Conservatives – have no organization and no planning. They have figureheads like when Bob Dole said it was his turn to run for president and then lost big. The GOP chairmen have been ineffective blobs since Hayley Barbour left to become Governor of Mississippi. House leader Hastert feathered his own nest with legislation that built freeways near his property and then he lost his next election – good thing. He did nothing in office. They are all thinking about their retirement, what they can get out of it.
The Media and Huckabee chose our candidate. The Media put Obama in office.

-    You would do better to stop sending foolish e-mails out to Republicans, and help us get another Reagan Revolution started.

-    The constant message of no taxes, freebies – welfare, health, paychecks for not working – is the message that Democrats sold. Democrats had the media in their back pocket, and the Bush America Haters message of “do not trust Republicans” got all the black, Mexican, and college kid vote. American business will be nationalized, energy rationed, unemployment will be extremely high, and the economy goes in the tank. Who will want to risk funding a business with leaders who know nothing about how to run a business? Oil companies will leave the USA for Canada. America will become a third world country in four years.

-    Already voted McCain/Palin 2 months ago by absentee. This whole election season was nothing but illegal scams, yet no one is doing anything about it but letting Obama, the phony, have his way. This country is going down the tubes. This is the second time or third time in a row in which the active duty military have not gotten a chance to have their votes counted. The votes that should be counted the most. People who put their lives on the line for our country, and in transitive property their families also, are slapped in the face one more time and told their opinions/votes do not matter. This country would not be where it is today without the military. Now we have elected a phony know-nothing because of his color and not his skill. I am sure we could have picked a better black person other than who we ended up with. A phony ladies’ man with just as phony of a spouse.

-    It is finished. The hippies, young and old, and the “people of color” have completed their mission. The United States of America is dead. From this day forward, I shall refer to his place as Duhmerica. My flag flies no more. I shall avoid all things media, retreat into my daily duties and hobbies and, occasionally, sadly remember when we were a great nation. “Reverend’ Wright was prophetic, in a perverse way: God has damned America.

-    How can we ignore the most effective enemy conservatives now face: the media? If voters knew the truth about Obama and many other Democratic candidates, I think today’s story would be different. I think if the Democrats had to nominate a candidate based on a full vetting by the media, they would have chosen differently. What would be the most effective weapon against the media if you were willing to go all out and take this matter seriously? Would it be a boycott by the conservative public, or better yet by the capitalist business world? Imagine the immediate defeat of those leftist institutions when the business world retraced their ad contracts. They fail and then are ready to be acquired by a new “fair” pro-American, pro-capitalist ownership. A total shakeup would occur. It’s not to say it won’t head that way again, but a line will have been drawn that says you don’t exist in this country without first supporting the principles of the Constitution and capitalism. The seriousness of this election mistake won’t be known for several months but it’s time to formulate a plan to turn things around. A plan that puts the fight back on even ground.

-    The best way to annoy the media is to cancel cable television. I don’t mean turn it off. I mean STOP feeding the beast. How long are we going to allow the media to select our presidents? They need to be OUT OF A JOB. I cancelled my cable television after the primaries.

-    Newt sold us out, get a clue. Conservatives are repudiating the GOP in this election.

-    I used to think I was a conservative until realized that guys like Buckley and Rusher were as bad as their “liberal” counterparts. I have come to realize that there are has not been a qualified US president in my lifetime from FDR to, and including, G. W. Bush. I think Barry Goldwater was qualified, but the “Republican” Party rejected him just as they rejected Ron Paul this time. They cared about the Constitution, but the others have betrayed the American Revolution and our Founding Fathers, leaving us with the thoroughly disgusting prospect of either a racist black Democrat or a wannabe-RINO who would never have made it to the Naval Academy or through Navy flight school and escaped responsibility for a disastrous shipboard fire that took 134 lives and did millions of dollars of damage without his daddy’s and granddaddy’s influence. The only explanation I have is that we are in the clutches of a secret combination of international proportions, and our votes aren’t worth the paper they weren’t printed on.

-    Well stated. Maybe it’s time to embrace the original Libertarian principles of our Republic, chief of which was very limited government.

-    This election was stolen by thugs in many cities; if the Rule of Law cannot be in place, our democracy is lost. California Republicanism is a picture of what you are describing: cold-hearted bankers and unfeeling pro-choice women who like a more luxurious lifestyle. Only Christianity can keep the “civilized” in civilization, and prevent greet and avarice from taking over our capitalistic system. As Russia experienced: if the poor are ignored and without education – as has been the case in our Black communities – society will be in jeopardy from their anger and frustration. May the Lord Jesus Christ help us reach out to the poor, and perhaps each one “adopt” a needy family that they know (we are helping one such family), then we will be living the Gospel of Christ and be able to give them the salvation message.

-    Republicans who stand for everything stand for nothing. It is time to restore Republican first principles. Restoration Republicans stand for Liberty (Freedom with Personal Responsibility).

-    And Obama’s socialist, communistic, Marxist hi-jacking of our government with intentions of destroying our nation is BETTER??

-    Why when the polls say that 85% of Americans believe that America has been going in the wrong direction the assumption is that it needs to go further to the left? Are the Republicans brain-dead?

-    You got THAT right! We did this to ourselves (RINO’s should be very proud of themselves!!) But I can’t help but thinking they had some significant help from… Satan. Do you know that there is not a SINGLE Republican House… from all of New England!!! God bless America! God knows we need it more than ever, since it seems we have abandoned Him!

-    The corrupt media is to blame for this great loss.
futhark, Albert Bryson, DRL, …
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  1. Republicans must disavow and purge the party of the neocon element that has perverted conservative into something totally unrecognizable as such. What American conservatives need to prioritize among the things that need conserving are as follows: 1) Our Constitution, including the Liberties that Americans enjoy under its protection, and the processes of government it delineates. No more warrantless wiretapping, no more abrogation of habeas corpus, no more "unitary executive", no more "signing statements". 2) Taxpayers money. No more federal intrusion into local affairs using the "carrot" of our own money to get local government to conform to federal requirements. No more billionaire bailouts. No more exploding deficits and astronomically expanding national debt. 3) National sovereignty. No more Security and Prosperity Pact, no North American Union, no WTO, no NAFTA. No amnesty for illegal aliens. Get the wall built. 4) Health of our citizens. Develop a system of delivering affordable medical care to ALL our citizens. 5) Our natural resources. Work to conserve our agricultural land, wilderness areas, mineral deposits, soil, clean air and water. 6) National prestige. Become a leader in the world for the peaceful resolution of conflicts. No more unprovoked attacks on other nations. Each and every one of these goals is doable. Republicans must find their way back to being the party of Liberty, Prosperity, and Peace.
  2. I agreed the United States of America is now dead. We have lost the cultural war: abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality and persecution of Christians will now reign. Illegal immigrants will become citizens of the United States. Dissent will not be tolerated. Liberal Fascism now in charge. I have already left the Republican Party in my party registration. It is time to give the Republican Party the mercy killing it deserves. We need to form a new third party that believes in a strict interpretation of the Constitution and get rid of the welfare system, the Federal Reserve and tell the rest of the world and United Nations to drop dead. We will not tolerate any more immigration. We will become an unwelcome nation and not help anyone else. We must become isolationist nation again. We only care for those Americans born in the current United States.
  3. I have written on several occasions prior to the 2008 elections that a likely senario (after the GOP suffers a resounding defeat) would be that it would be tossed on the dung heap of failure and cease to exist. It has repeatedly shown itself to be incompetent, irrelevant, and unable to offer a coherent message that represents any real choice. I firmly believe that it cannot be reformed! My hope is that a third party will emerge from its ashes that truly represents traditional conservatives. A small base is already in place. It is the Constitution Party. If you will take the time to read the platform I believe that you will agree it truly offers a choice. Check it out at http://www.constitutionparty.com/party_platform.php#TOP
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Viguerie: Obama should thank McCain and Rove
November 05, 2008
Richard Viguerie
Many people deserve the gratitude of Barack Obama for the roles they played in his historic victory. But there are two men whom he may have forgotten to thank.
Many people deserve the gratitude of Barack Obama for the roles they played in his historic victory. But there are two men whom he may have forgotten to thank.

I.   John McCain

First,
Obama should thank John McCain. If McCain had used the issues available to him, and if he had not unilaterally disarmed out of a misplaced sense of honor, he could have won in a landslide, even bearing the weight of the Bush presidency and the financial crisis.

When it mattered most…

McCain refused to point out that Obama is a socialist. 
Obama’s support for redistribution of income – socialism, in the common sense of the term – was well documented. During the Democratic primary debates, he declared that he would support tax increases for “fairness” even if they resulted in less revenue for the government – in other words, even if they hurt the economy. And, of course, there was the interview he gave years ago in which he regretted that the Supreme Court had not pursued redistributionism. Yet it took Joe the Plumber to raise the issue. By then, it was too late.

McCain refused to raise the issue of Obama’s partnerships with hatemongers. 
In the spring, when some Republicans tried to highlight the fact that Obama was a member of a church led by a racist, anti-American hatemonger – the Rev. Jeremiah Wright – McCain declared the matter off-limits. So, when it turned out that Obama had launched his political career as a partner of Bill Ayers – a terrorist bomber who dedicated one of his books to the assassin of Robert Kennedy – many people refused to believe it. Likewise, Obama’s affiliations with other Marxists and assorted crooks and kooks seemed like smears simply because the McCain campaign raised the issue too late.

McCain refused to run as a conservative. 
He thought he would be the candidate of bipartisanship, of reaching across the aisle to work with his opponents, or ‘moderation’ in a year in which the voters wanted dramatic change. He thought he would pick up votes in the Northeast; he didn’t. He thought he would pick up votes in the suburbs; he didn’t. He thought he would pick up Latino votes; he didn’t. In the closing weeks, McCain mostly highlighted the ideological differences between himself and his opponent, but, again, it was too late. Instead of moderation and bipartisanship, people voted for the country’s most liberal Senator and the fourth most partisan. 

McCain refused to free himself from the restrictions of taxpayer financing. 
Ideologically committed to campaign finance “reform” (as it is called, ironically), McCain kept his promise to fill his campaign coffers by ripping off taxpayers, and accepted the limitations that come with accepting that money. That gave Obama, who broke his own promise, a massive financial advantage that McCain could never overcome. 

McCain refused to lead the fight against the Wall Street bailout. 
McCain almost cancelled a debate, so that he could rush to Washington to “deal with” the financial crisis (without any plan or idea of his own). Yet, when the people needed a champion, he supported the bailout that would threaten America’s financial future. Imagine if he had led the charge against the bailout, and against Obama for supporting it.

II.                Karl Rove

Second,
President-elect Obama should repeat the words of President Bush at his victory rally four years ago: “I want to thank ‘the Architect,’ Karl Rove.” Because Rove is the Architect of the Obama victory.

Karl Rove was the brains behind the Bush strategy of Big Government Republicanism – the Medicare prescription drug benefit that will help bankrupt future generations, the federalization of education, massive deficits, rampant pork-barrel spending, and so on. In the end, it was the Wall Street bailout – and all the other bailouts and “stimulus packages” that will flow from the Wall Street bailout – that was the last gasp of Big Government Republicanism, and that killed McCain’s chances.
 
John McCain and Karl Rove – the two unsung heroes of the Obama for President campaign. How, oh how, can he ever properly thank them?
Robert, RED, formerdem, …
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  1. Where are all the Goldwaters and Reagonites? It's about time we kicked the neo-cons into the gutter.
  2. Already some pundits are trying to blame the conservative Sarah Palin for McCain's derailment - she was the only reason the train stayed on the track at all! When will the Republican party stop trying to be so moderate and listen instead to the conservative base?
  3. Yo, the far left DID kick the "neo-cons" into the gutter with the elections yesterday. It's rather disingenous nto criticize a candidate you didn't even vote for for not winning, by the way. Enjoy the reign of Barack Hussein Obama.
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Richard Viguerie: All Republican congressional leaders should resign … or grassroots conservatives will withhold support from the GOP
November 05, 2008
Richard Viguerie
     “Republican congressional leaders have failed their party, they have failed the conservatives who make up their party’s base, and they have failed the American people.  They should resign immediately,” Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said.

     “The political party that conservatives have supported with their volunteer work, money, and votes has not supported conservatives.  That has to change.  The congressional leadership must be replaced with principled conservatives.
     “Republican congressional leaders have failed their party, they have failed the conservatives who make up their party’s base, and they have failed the American people.  They should resign immediately,” Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said.

     “The political party that conservatives have supported with their volunteer work, money, and votes has not supported conservatives.  That has to change.  The congressional leadership must be replaced with principled conservatives.

     “If the congressional leaders refuse to resign, grassroots conservatives should cut off their support – their financial support, and their volunteer support,” Viguerie said.  “Conservatives should channel their support to principled conservative candidates and to organizations that will promote a conservative agenda.

     “Not one cent, and not one minute of volunteer work, should go to the Republican Party until the congressional leadership is replaced with principled conservatives.  These leaders still don’t understand why the voters have rejected them, and they won’t ‘get it’ until conservatives hit them where it hurts.”

     Three years ago, in his book Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause, Viguerie warned of the consequences for 2006 and 2008 unless Republican leaders were replaced.

     Said Viguerie: “In this election, the people did not reject conservatism.  They rejected failed, incompetent Big Government Republican leaders.  It’s time for conservatives to do the same.”
Mark, Miche, Esther Petersen, …
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  1. Why should we ask all congressional leaders to resign when we had a true Republican named Ron Paul, running for the Presidency only to be called a quack by his own party and ignored by major media. It looks to me like it's the people of this country with the problem of understanding truth. People are so wrapped up with celebritism that they have a hard time distinguishing the difference between fiction and reallity! But let's not be upset over this election, but instead let's focus our attention on the Democrats who now control it all. If nothing changes, I will become a member of the constitutional party and there I will remain!
  2. I agree that conservatives should cut off their money to the GOP because you are ill served by the party. Put your money where your mouths are and start a new party. Then you can run the candidates of your choice and liking. Do it before 2012....this will give Sarah Palin a place to further herself and the conservative platform. The GOP is surely to distance themselves from Sarah, she is a liability for the GOP, as they seek to re-invent themselves in the coming years. Re-invention is a progressive term, so don't fret if you can not grasp the concept. And that is the problem with the GOP right now, they have been non-progressive, because they are have allowed the conservative wing of their party to rope and tie them. YOU ARE THE REASON THAT YESTERDAY THE COUNTRY REJECTED THE GOP. You are no more welcome in the GOP than you desire to give them your conservative $$$$ to the GOP. So take a page out of Obama's book and make that CHANGE. Do something progressive like starting a new party.
  3. Conservatives have proven that they do not want a Moderate, they want a "stand in the gap" kind of Leader. The RNC had better get that message loud and clear.
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Viguerie: Democrats ran as moderates, forfeited any claim to a liberal mandate
November 05, 2008
Richard Viguerie
     By running as moderates, “Democrats forfeited any claim to a liberal mandate,” Richard A. Viguerie said today.

     “In the 2008 election, the American people voted to punish the Big Government Republicans who made a mess of things, from the conduct of the Iraq War to Katrina to the Wall Street bailout,” Viguerie said.  “But, at the same time people were voting to throw the Republicans out, they were giving the Democratic Congress some of the lowest approval ratings ever recorded.  This was a vote against Big Government Republicanism, not a lurch to the Left.
     By running as moderates, “Democrats forfeited any claim to a liberal mandate,” Richard A. Viguerie said today.

     “In the 2008 election, the American people voted to punish the Big Government Republicans who made a mess of things, from the conduct of the Iraq War to Katrina to the Wall Street bailout,” Viguerie said.  “But, at the same time people were voting to throw the Republicans out, they were giving the Democratic Congress some of the lowest approval ratings ever recorded.  This was a vote against Big Government Republicanism, not a lurch to the Left.

     “And the proof of that is that Democrats didn’t run as liberals. 

     “Instead, they ran against Big Government Republicanism and stressed they would govern as centrists,” Viguerie said.  “They ran as moderates who would cut taxes for 95% of the people, who would balance the budget in four years, who would go line-by-line through the budget eliminating wasteful programs, who would capture Osama bin Laden, who would leave law-abiding gun owners alone.

     “Democrats will be under tremendous pressure – from their special interest groups such as MoveOn, unions, race-based groups, and pro-abortion and homosexual groups – to run the country from the Left,” he said.  “If they do, they will learn, like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, what happens when politicians claim mandates they didn’t earn.”

     Regarding the future of Senator McCain’s running mate, Viguerie said, “Governor Sarah Palin came out of the campaign as a hero to conservatives and a rising star with a strong future.”

redhawk
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  1. Give it time.. they ean as Moderates but Obama .. Pelosi.. Reid will not budge from the Ultra left IOU's that they Owe.. Soros, Teacher's union. Lawyers, and Labor unions plus all the Newly Registered Voters on the Libtard Payroll will not let them..
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Richard Viguerie: America Rejects Big Government Republicanism
November 05, 2008
Richard Viguerie
     In the 2008 elections, “Voters did not reject conservatism,” Richard A. Viguerie, the Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said.  “They rejected Big Government Republicanism in all its forms, including the Bush administration and the Republican leadership in Congress.”

     The McCain campaign, Viguerie said, “represented many things Americans do not like about politics.  Senator McCain spent more than a quarter-century in Washington as a ‘moderate’ and ‘insider,’ and his campaign was run by longtime Washington insiders and lobbyists for Big Government.”
     In the 2008 elections, “Voters did not reject conservatism,” Richard A. Viguerie, the Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said.  “They rejected Big Government Republicanism in all its forms, including the Bush administration and the Republican leadership in Congress.”

     The McCain campaign, Viguerie said, “represented many things Americans do not like about politics.  Senator McCain spent more than a quarter-century in Washington as a ‘moderate’ and ‘insider,’ and his campaign was run by longtime Washington insiders and lobbyists for Big Government.”

     “This disastrous defeat can and will be laid at the feet of the Big Government corporate Republicans, who abandoned the Reagan Coalition, massively expanded government, and ignored the needs and values of regular, grassroots Americans.  They protected Wall Street and K Street and forgot about Main Street.”

     Said Viguerie: “Republicans will make a comeback only after they return to their conservative roots.  That process starts with the replacement, with principled conservatives, of all of the Republicans’ elected Congressional leaders, as well as most members of the Republican National Committee and most state party officials.  It’s time for new leaders, from top to bottom.”

     “The battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party,” Viguerie said, “begins now.”
Nino Borrelli, Rose Colombo, Sol Weis, …
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  1. I'm with you on that Mr. Viguerie. Conservative values and principles win and work all the time. Republicans, more than ever now, need to go back to those basics that make us who we are and what we stand for. God Bless our great country!
  2. I tend to disagree with the analysis that the Republican party needs to make a come back and should take the entire blame for big government. Congresspersons Maxine Waters and Raines and many other far left liberal congressional persons promoted the fraudulent loans and Obama's ACORN group which he defends encouraged the banks to give out those loans to people who couldn't afford them. The Republic Senate and Sen. John McCain attempted to avert the housing crisis before it crashed, but Waters and Raines and the other congressional democrats adamantly opposed any investigation and shouted out loud that there was no need for an investigation and that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were just fine even though the Republic Senate pointed out that there was only about 23 cents on the books before it crashed. Bush and the Republicans and McCain took the fall for their alleged wrong doing. So what happened to the millions of tax dollars that Raines was suppose to account for? Doesn't anyone care? It was because of President Bush and Senator McCain and the Republicans pushing for the surge that the Iraqis are safer since 911, but Obama was given the credit for doing what which again he didn't deserve. Three thousand Americans were killed on 911 by Islamic radical terrorists who declared war on America and still do by shouting out that they will take over our country or wipe us out. President Bush sent troops to fight them on their soil so that our blood wouldn't be shed on our soil, but Americans soon forgot about that even though Obama said he felt sorry for the attacks on the terrorists by our soldiers, Americans voted for him and he got credit for doing what for America and Iraq? The media intentionally favored Obama and threw 100% of their prime time and most ads were for Obama for months afte he lied to McCain about campaign funds, but what's a little lie by a presidential candidate? The media made sure that they belittled Palin and made fun of her and called her an idiot and female reporters shamelessly judged her as a working mom. The media diminished McCain and Palin so they wouldn't have a chance and it was a shoe in for Obama in my opinion, but then money talks and McCain didn't have connections over seas in enemy countries. A few conservative talk show hosts attempted to get the truth out to the public, but even some of them were eventually reigned in and turned on McCain. So, the fact is that the Democrats started "changing" America under the Clinton administration when he promoted NAFTA and open borders which is disastrous to America and allowed for more drugs to enter our country. Open borders allows more criminals and terrorists to walk into our country and Obama said that he intends to hand driver's licenses to illegals who are violating our laws, but then that's probably not important to Americans since they voted for him. Under the Clinton administration, our military budget was diminished and people were fired and they lost their homes while our government sold arms to communist China and the terrorist countries in the Middle East and Clinton gave billions to Russia. The CEO's whose companies were built on the backs of hard working Americans outsourced our jobs and today, many Americans don't have jobs because these companies are hiring illegal and legal immigrants for less money to take the place of natural born citizens who are fired. The states have been taking away parents rights since the 80s as well as the schools. So, socialism has been slowly pushing its way into our country for many years under the far left democratic programs, but the far left socialist type democrats have been extremely clever to ensure that Bush and McCain and the Republicans would take the fall for the economic crisis and the war and give no credit for protecting the American people or attempting to protect them from the economic crisis. It appears that it is the perfectly planned agenda of the socialist type democrats to take the U.S. Presidency and the U.S. Congress by controlling the media and through manipulation of dirty tricks and by taking credit for what they didn't earn and blaming the Republicans for the economic mess that the democrats created and pushed forward for two decades. The truth is that there are different agendas and as one talk show host said, elections have consequences, and I do predict that in one or two or three years that the American people will be sorry when they are confronted with the consequences by a man who won't produce a certified U.S. birth certificate and certified Proof of Citizenship which could mean that the President of the United States could be a illegal alien and if not, then show the proof of citizenship and end the doubts in the minds of millions.
  3. I must disagree. This election was stolen by the Acorn vote fraud. It succeeded. John McCain told us about it. Unfortunately, no one realized the danger until it was too late. McCain was further done in by the liberal media. We must do something about it. The third factor was the unlimited fund spent by the union bosses. With Acorn, the liberal media, and the union bosses having taken over the country, I am thinking Australia.
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Richard Viguerie: Stevens Conviction Symptomatic of Culture of Corruption in Politics
October 28, 2008
Richard Viguerie
     The conviction of Senator Ted Stevens, the senior Republican in the U.S. Senate, is “just a symptom of the corruption that has infected Republicans and Democrats alike,” Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said. 

     “That infection is spreading through Washington and all of American politics, from the houses of Congress to the courthouses,” Viguerie said.
     The conviction of Senator Ted Stevens, the senior Republican in the U.S. Senate, is “just a symptom of the corruption that has infected Republicans and Democrats alike,” Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said. 

     “That infection is spreading through Washington and all of American politics, from the houses of Congress to the courthouses,” Viguerie said.

     “Sometimes, as in the ethanol subsidy program or in the bailout of Wall Street millionaires, the level of corruption is so large that it’s hard for the mind to grasp.  It’s like an Enron a day,” he said.

     Viguerie noted that Republican reformers who have stood up to the GOP establishment have been targeted for retaliation.

     “Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, politicians of all stripes should understand that, since they won’t take action to clean up their own houses, the American people will do it for them,” he said.
Michael Patrick Leahy, Michael Patrick Leahy, Purnell Meagre, …
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  1. Great post. Stevens was found guilty of financial corruption. Barack Obama is guilty of constitutional corruption. In a speech Tuesday night to the Tipton County Republicans of Tennessee I argued that Senator Obama is not a natural born citizen and therefore not eligible to serve as President. His stonewalling tactics and failure to authorize the release of documents related to his birth show contempt for both the Constitution and the American political process. You can read my speech here: http://www.michaelpatrickleahy.com/obamapressrelease.pdf
  2. This link should work: http://www.michaelpatrickleahy.com/obamapressrelease.pdf
  3. Rather than address the issue of Ted Stevens, I'd just like to say that after hearing McCain picked Pail for vice-president I did a little research and have not stopped smiling since. I hope she runs in 2012 and in 2016 and in 2020 and in 2024. By the then the Democrats should have cleaned up the mess Bush is leaving them
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You can be a media publishing mogul and reach 100,000 people in the next few days.
October 23, 2008
Richard Viguerie

IF OBAMA BECOMES PRESIDENT…

What’s on his ‘To Do’ list? With the help of Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid, what would President Obama do?

We at ConservativeHQ.com set out to compile a list:
 
·         What will they do to “spread the wealth around”?
·         What will they do to force workers to join unions?
·         What will they do to force taxpayers to support abortion?
·         What will they do to promote illegal immigration?
·         What else will they do to America?

IF OBAMA BECOMES PRESIDENT…

What’s on his ‘To Do’ list? With the help of Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid, what would President Obama do?

We at ConservativeHQ.com set out to compile a list:
 
·         What will they do to “spread the wealth around”?
·         What will they do to force workers to join unions?
·         What will they do to force taxpayers to support abortion?
·         What will they do to promote illegal immigration?
·         What else will they do to America?
 
From the voting records and speeches of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid we have put together a list of items likely to be on their TO DO list.

It’s an open-ended list, and we’d like to hear from you with your suggestions. Can you think of things to be added?

The MAINSTREAM media (NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time and Newsweek Magazines, etc., etc.), have lost all claim to objectivity. They are doing everything they can to help elect Obama and give Democrats stronger control of Congress.

Because most of the national media have become an arm of the Democratic campaign, it is up to those of us who don’t support their radical left-wing agenda to do the work that the mainstream media refuses to do.

If tens of thousands of us decide to act as grassroots publishers and get this information to others, we will reach more people than the mainstream media.

All you need to do to be a grassroots publishing mogul is think of a list of people that you can send this information to using the mails, faxes, and emails.

If you make copies of this and send via postal mail, fax, or email to 100 people, and if only 10% of those 100 also become a grassroots publisher and send to 100 people, that’s 1,000 people you’ve reached.

Then if 10% of those 1,000 send to 100 people, that’s 10,000 people you’ve reached by being a grassroots publisher.

Now if we just take it one more step and 10% of those 10,000 become like you, a grass roots publisher, then you’ve reached 100,000 Americans probably in less than a week by just sending this email to 100 people. Of course, if you were to send it to hundreds of people today, within a week, your grassroots publishing efforts could reach hundreds of thousands.

Richard A. Viguerie
9625 Surveyor Court, Suite 400
Manassas, VA 20110
rav@conservativesbetrayed.com
 
P.S. If you are as upset as I am about the mainstream media’s coverage of the campaign, go to
http://conservativehq.com/active-petitions/mainstream-media/
and let them know how you feel.
 
 
 
TO DO List for Obama, Pelosi, and Reid
  1.  
  2. 1.  Making America a socialist country.
  3.  
  4. 2.  Enacting a major distribution of wealth – in other words, taking from some Americans and giving it to others (including people here illegally).
  5.  
  6. 3.  Increasing the capital gains tax, which will reduce investments and new jobs.
  7.  
  8. 4.  Increasing the estate (death) tax, leaving more to the government and less for your children and grandchildren.
  9.  
  10. 5.  “Allowing” the Bush tax cuts to expire, thereby increasing taxes on most Americans.
  11.  
  12. 6.  Removing the cap on Social Security payroll taxes.
  13.  
  14. 7.  Increasing taxes on seniors who continue to work after retirement age.
  15.  
  16. 8.  Enacting huge taxes to fight “global warming,” such as higher taxes on gasoline.
  17.  
  18. 9.  Merging the tax and welfare systems, disguising welfare checks as “tax cuts.”
  19.  
  20. 10.  Creating more “welfare” programs for corporations using taxpayer money.
  21.  
  22. 11.  Instituting more taxpayer bailouts for Wall Street and other big corporations.
  23.  
  24. 12.  Imposing rules that require nearly all workers to join unions, even against their wishes.
  25.  
  26. 13.  Instituting a new “Fairness Doctrine” that would cause broadcast stations to eliminate radio talk shows (no more Rush Limbaugh, Jim Dobson, Laura Ingraham, etc.).
  27.  
  28. 14.  Issuing government mandates that increase the cost of health insurance, and making patients wait longer to see their doctors, dentists, and other health care providers.
  29.  
  30. 15.  Rationing health care for all, especially seniors.
  31.  
  32. 16.  Rationing health care for premature infants.
  33.  
  34. 17.  Rationing health care for people with rare diseases.
  35.  
  36. 18.  Rationing health care for people when doctors guess that they are terminally ill.
  37.  
  38. 19.  Rationing health care that uses new or expensive medicine or medical technology.
  39.  
  40. 20.  Having the government determining who will be your doctor.
  41.  
  42. 21  Having the government deciding which hospital you will use.
  43.  
  44. 22.  Having the government deciding what medicines you can take.
  45.  
  46. 23.  Increasing welfare payments for illegal aliens.
  47.  
  48. 24.  Increasing taxpayers’ health care spending on illegal aliens.
  49.  
  50. 25.  Eliminating rules that prevent vote fraud, such as requiring voter identification, and providing voting rights for felons.
  51.  
  52. 26.  Imposing government control over political content on the Internet.
  53.  
  54. 27.  Passing “hate crime” laws that would put ministers and others in jail for criticizing homosexual behavior.
  55.  
  56. 28.  Requiring taxpayers to pay for all abortions and providing additional federal support to organizations that perform abortions.
  57.  
  58. 29.  Allowing all abortions, including partial-birth abortions.

    30.  Removing all state restrictions on abortion, including late-term abortions and requirements that health care be given to infants who survive abortions.
  59.  
  60. 31.  Voiding state laws on parental consent and informed consent.
  61.  
  62. 32.  Appointing judges who make decisions based on their political beliefs, instead of the Constitution and statutory law.
  63.  
  64. 33.  Ending restrictions on plaintiff lawyers who file frivolous lawsuits.
     
  65. 34. Signing and ratifying treaties that transfer U.S. sovereignty to the United Nations and other international organizations.
  35. Making the District of Columbia the 51st state (with two Senators and a House member in Congress).

  36. Making Puerto Rico the 52nd state (with two Senators and six House members in Congress).

  37. Increasing federal government spending by a trillion dollars a year ($13,000 per family).

Be sure to e-mail your additions and/or suggested changes to this list to rav@conservativesbetrayed.com

Thanks,
Richard A. Viguerie
Rose Colombo, Rose Colombo, Elliot, …
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  1. The Congress of the United States cannot let Obama run for the office of U.S. President because they have sworn to uphold the law. Obama has not produced an authentic U.S. certified birth certificate, only a birth certificate from Indonesia listing him as a Muslim. The supreme laws of the land are black and white and demand the following laws be followed and someone should file a lawsuit to produce: The Constitution of the United States: Article II: "No person accept a natural born citizen of the United States or a citizen of the United Staes at the time of the adoption of the constitution shall be eligible to the Office of President, neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of 35 years and a fourteen year resident within the United States."
  2. Richard, Obama plans to tax 401k retirement plans and eliminate investor tax breaks and force workers money into obligatory retirement accounts so employers can't write off the contributions to your 401K and your capital gains will be taxed year to year so this eliminates tax benefits for employers and employer contributions to your 401 K as all incentives will be eliminated by Obama. He will distribute the wealth - your retirement money - but not to you!
  3. I have sent this out to everyone I could. I hope readers will contact the Justice Department and will send the following message out to everyone they can. We need to get thousands and thousands, if not millions, of Americans, to storm the US Justice Department with phone calls and emails! In his over-weaning arrogance, Barack Hussein Obama is not only perpetrating voter fraud on a vast scale, Obama and his campaign are now trying to pressure the Department of Justice from investigating voter fraud prior to the election! WE MUST ALL TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION by doing the following, and we MUST get the following message out to ALL Conservative sites we can, AND to EVERYONE on our email lists! 1) Send an email to US Attorney General Mukasey at AskDOJ@usdoj.gov like this one I wrote and sent yesterday. You can copy and paste this one if that is convenient for you: Dear Attorney General Mukasey, It takes my breath away that Senator Barack Obama is trying to pressure you and the United States Department of Justice into waiting until the 2008 Presidential election is over before you investigate allegations of widespread voter fraud. It's believed that hundreds of thousands, if not millions of voters have been illegally registered all across the country. As a citizen of the United States of America, I am outraged that one of the candidates in this election is attempting to interfere with the carrying out of correct and proper justic prior to the election on November 4th. To investigate voter fraud after the election is over would be stupid and pointless. My civil rights as a US citizen are being violated---my guarantee to being able to vote in a FAIR and TRUTHFUL election---and I expect YOU, Attorney General Mukasey, to carry out YOUR sworn obligation to protect and to defend MY civil rights, and to MAKE SURE the 2008 Presidential election is FAIR and ABOVE BOARD. I am appalled and disgusted that Barack Obama has the audacity and the gaul to try to stall an investigation by the highest law enforcement agency in the land! I EXPECT you to ignore him and to CARRY OUT your sworn DUTY IMMEDIATELY---BEFORE, NOT AFTER, the November 4th, 2008 election is over! Yours sincerely, ___________ _____________ TELEPHONE the Attorney General at this phone number, and tell him the same message: 202-353-1555 THEN, demand that the McCain campaign and the RNC make the DOJ investigate voter fraud NOW at: akmccaincomments@yahoo.com ideas@mccain08hq.com and at 907-575-7257. WE MUST DO THIS, PEOPLE!! WE MUST STORM the DOJ and the Republican Party with angry requests that the DOJ investigate, finish and report on their investigation into ACORN voter fraud NOW, BEFORE the election, NOT after it's over!
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Final Presidential Debate – McCain recites Name, Rank and Service Number
October 16, 2008
Jeff Rendall
Hard as it is to believe, tonight marked that last time the presidential candidates will officially meet on the same stage to debate the salient subjects of our times – and for those of us waiting for some kind of ‘breakthrough’ from John McCain, we’re sorely disappointed.

Simply put, McCain failed to put distance between himself and George Bush – or even Obama himself.  It’s no secret that McCain’s lacked an overall theme in his campaign -- and tonight, nothing new was revealed.  McCain again mentioned ‘greed’ in his first answer, and many hearts sank at the realization that there was going to be no epiphany – McCain was still McCain.
By Jeffrey A. Rendall

Hard as it is to believe, last night marked that last time the presidential candidates will officially meet on the same stage to debate the salient subjects of our times – and for those of us waiting for some kind of ‘breakthrough’ from John McCain, we’re sorely disappointed.

Simply put, McCain failed to put distance between himself and George Bush – or even Obama himself.  It’s no secret that McCain’s lacked an overall theme in his campaign -- and last night, nothing new was revealed.  McCain again mentioned ‘greed’ in his first answer, and many hearts sank at the realization that there was going to be no epiphany – McCain was still McCain.

McCain did achieve one of the most effective moments of the debate when he looked straight at Obama and said “I am not President Bush.   If you wanted to run against Bush, you should’ve run four years ago.”

Obama looked stunned -- needless to say, we didn’t hear much about ‘Bush’ the rest of the evening.

And McCain did effectively re-argue the same things he’s been talking about for months, and even seemed most animated and passionate when bringing up Bill Ayres.  But McCain once again failed to mention perhaps his strongest ‘association’ weapon against Obama – Jeremiah Wright – instead leaving the Republican portion of the viewing audience virtually begging him to say something about it.

McCain, ever the ‘honorable’ warrior, appears determined to go down with his honor.  With pundits and supporters across the country imploring McCain to fight harder to distinguish himself – in the end, McCain is left with himself.  Only McCain can answer if that’s good enough, and perhaps the answer won’t come until November 5th.

Conservative voters might have a different opinion, but then again, we never really expected much from McCain to begin with.

In the end, McCain’s answers to voters’ concerns consisted of the basics – not too far removed from ‘name, rank and service number.’  McCain didn’t bow to the demands of his captors in Vietnam, and he’s not going to give in to others’ pleading to try and open things up in his final campaign, either. 

McCain’s vowed time and again to ‘fight for you,’ but that’s not the feeling that conservatives engender from watching him go against Obama.  McCain was a little feistier in this final forum, but he clearly wasn’t willing to play all his cards.

For Obama’s part, he should relish the opportunity to ‘debate’ McCain, because he knows from the opening introductions that he can’t lose.  Obama knows that McCain’s ‘honor’ won’t allow him to bring up his racist, anti-American pastor (the biggest liability on his side), and any ‘negativity’ will only reflect poorly on McCain.

McCain’s history and character preclude any kind of personal attacks, so Obama doesn’t have to worry about preparing a list of names to conjure up from McCain’s past – and if McCain mentions the specters from Obama’s history, all he has to do is change the subject.

Obama’s honed the line from his debates with Hillary Clinton – whenever William Ayres or anyone else is mentioned, he automatically pushes one of his automatic answer ‘buttons.’  “Well, we need to get back to the issues that the American people care about.”

Well, Barack, we care about who you’ve hung with in the past – but your ‘change’ message sure sounds nice, and you’re really, really good at talking about it.  Throw in an opponent who seems all-too-willing to let terrorist dogs lie, and you SHOULD be measuring the drapes in the Oval Office.

Did McCain ‘win?’

John McCain clearly had his best showing of the debate season, but it could hardly be called a ‘victory.’  At best, McCain proved that he could hold his own against a man who’s known for his ability to work with words – and just as he did during the Republican primary season, he demonstrated that he’s a quick thinker and possesses a quirky sense of humor.

But he didn’t ‘win.’

A win would’ve been achieved by a clearly articulated plan to deal with the economy – something along the lines of the plan advanced by Newt Gingrich.  Conservatives would probably disagree on some if not all points of the plan, but at least there’d be a starting point.

McCain’s policies aren’t basic enough for people to understand.  When both candidates are tossing out programs that run into the hundreds of billions, it all seems to run together after awhile.

And McCain still hasn’t learned his lesson that he can’t out-appropriate a liberal – it’s a losing argument from the start when you’re a Republican trying to argue that your version of Big Government is superior to a Democrat’s.  There’s just no credibility there.

I may be wrong, but I don’t recall hearing much about free markets or ‘capitalism’ – the latter having become a dirty buzzword in recent weeks.

John, Barack, and ‘Joe the plumber’

To McCain’s credit, he brought ‘Joe the plumber’ into the conversation early, during the first question segment on the financial crisis.  For those who’ve been away from major media for the past several days, Joe the plumber refers to the shiny-scalped aspiring small business owner from Ohio who confronted Obama a few days ago about his tax plan.

Obama told Joe that he wanted to ‘spread the wealth around.’

McCain critiqued Obama’s words and brought Joe into the discussion time and again (even speaking to Joe when looking directly into the camera), but Obama’s ability to talk himself out of any difficulty carried him through most of the tight spots.

Obama’s complete command of his talking points allows him to deflect any criticism of his policies or his record.  Obama deserves credit for his extremely polished presentation – clearly he and his handlers have spent hours honing canned answers to any potential fissures in his platform or backgro