> Looks like Dubya went too far this time...
>
>
> http://sg.news.yahoo.com/060521/1/40zmg.html
>
>
> In open split with Bush, top US conservative calls for independent movement
>
> AFP Sunday May 21, 6:13 PM
>
> The patriarch of US conservatives has urged his followers to halt their
> financial support of the Republican Party and start an independent
> movement, signaling a major political shift that could result in heavy
> losses for the US ruling party in upcoming elections.
>
> Richard Viguerie, who was instrumental in cementing the winning coalitions
> behind Ronald Reagan in 1980 and George W. Bush in 2000, declared that
> conservatives were "downright fed up" with both the president and
> Republican-controlled Congress.
>
> "At the very least, conservatives must stop funding the Republican
> National Committee and other party groups," Viguerie wrote in a lengthy
> essay in The Washington Post Sunday.
>
> He suggested conservatives "redirect their anger into building a third
> force," which he defined as a movement independent of any party, and
> laying the groundwork for the 2008 election campaign.
[snip]
> Viguerie acknowledged that a conservative boycott in November will likely
> spell defeat for the Republicans, but insisted it would be for the
> long-term good of the conservative movement.
I've heard this one before -- only on the "other side": Ralph Nadir in 2000.
Almost verbatim.
Reminds me of the ending of the novel McTeague,
AKA Erich von Stroheim's
silent film masterpiece: GREED:
An ill-willed character intent on destroying
the film's protagonist somehow manages [I forget the details...] to
handcuff himself to his hated foe in the middle of the desert -- since
neither can escape their now-inescapable identity(sic) of destiny,
they both die in the desert heat. Let this Viguerie dude and
Ralph Nadir go at each other in the middle of Death Valley. Talk
about reality TV -- I'd watch this one!
\brad mccormick
>
> "If conservatives accept the idea that we must support Republicans no
> matter what they do, we give up our bargaining position and any chance at
> getting things done," he reasoned. "Sometimes it is better to stand on
> principle and suffer a temporary defeat."
>
> Conservatives have privately grumbled about some of Bush's decisions, but
> his immigration reform, announced in a nationally televised address last
> Monday, appeared to have marked the breaking point.
>
> The plan calls for a series of measures to bolster security at the
> US-Mexican border, including deploying up to 6,000 National Guard troops.
>
> But Bush also called on Americans to allow many of the estimated 11.5
> million illegal immigrants to eventually become citizens, a move that most
> conservatives see as tantamount to a presidential pardon for lawbreakers.
>
> Viguerie insisted that Bush only "talked like a conservative to win our
> votes but never governed like a conservative."
>
> He lamented that the conservative movement has been rewarded by the
> president for its support with "an amnesty plan for illegal immigrants."
>
> "We've been rewarded with a war in Iraq that drags on because of the
> failure to provide adequate resources at the beginning, and with exactly
> the sort of 'nation-building' that candidate Bush said he opposed," the
> conservative patriarch went on to say.
>
> He also called congressional Republicans "unprincipled power brokers",
> whose agenda "comes from big business".
>
> Often referred to as "the conservative voice of America", Viguerie gained
> prominence in the 1960s and 1970s when he pioneered political and
> ideological direct mail, an innovation that helped conservatives organize
> and gain their voice.
>
> He is the author of numerous books and credited with forming dozens of
> political organizations.
>
>
>
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