Richard Viguerie: “Tea Party Acitivsts Are The New GOP”
November 1st, 2009, 11:28 AM EST
His direct mail campaigns helped empower and elect many Republicans, including Ronald Reagan. He believes George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are too liberal. Richard Viguerie now can celebrate.
With the decision of moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava, the party’s nominee in New York state special election for an open congressional seat, to suspend her campaign, the new “new right” — which Viguerie describes as “Tea Party activists, town hall protesters, and conservatives across the country” — can claim a clear victory in its struggle to define the GOP as a far more extreme party than that envisoned by Bush, Cheney or Gingrich.
If Viguerie is right (pun intended), we can all celebrate.
Pride cometh before the fall Alan. The GOP wrote Obama off as an unelectable political neophyte who would be strangled in the shadow of the Clinton juggernaut. Outside of the bubble of water carriers, most people are beginning to realize the new boss is a lot like the old boss, although not so nice to his critics and seemingly Stalinistically paranoid. This ain’t Warsaw 1939 pal, the people aren’t going to sit around and wait until its too late.
OldLefty Reply:
November 1st, 2009 at 3:29 pm
” This ain’t Warsaw 1939 pal, the people aren’t going to sit around and wait until its too late.”
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You mean they going to cave to the lowest common denominator, and slip back into the ‘tell me I’m pretty and that you respect my values, and I’ll vote for you’ mentality of the last 30 years?
Rocky the Liberal Rottweiler Reply:
November 1st, 2009 at 5:10 pm
“This ain’t Warsaw 1939 pal…”
The bloated obese pigs in this country wouldn’t have survived long enough to find themselves penned inside Warsaw, so don’t even try to make that analogy.
EricG Reply:
November 1st, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Well said. This is exactly why conservatism if failing as an ideology and as a political party.
They have nothing to offer but pride and definitions about the opposition.
No solutions, just code-speak.
Look at the GOP governor candidate for California, Meg Whitman.
She didn’t vote in decades and now all of sudden thinks her “pro-business solutions” should be gobbled up without anyone challenging her on how absurd it is she claims to be invested in this state when she didn’t vote on Prop 8, Measure K, Medical Marijuana Laws, and The Recall.
It’s nothing less than bold arrogance and pride.
She even, in Republican-conservative fashion, tried to say that the press couldn’t prove she didn’t vote when it first came out.
Then they just proved it with voter registration in about two minutes time from when he challenged them on it.
So pride does come before the fall. Bush was the “pride” and “tea parties” are the fall.
pierre Reply:
November 1st, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Tea bagger parties= No news fox
Help… Ah AHAHAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH.
November 1st, 2009 at 3:02 pm
“And that’s the way it is, Good Night”
Walter Cronkite!?
November 1st, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Somehow the Taliban wing of the GOP has not figured out that appealing to a smaller segment of the electorate will not reverse the trend of defeat….
jazmine Reply:
November 1st, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Correct…
Cheers!
November 1st, 2009 at 9:13 pm
jazmine Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:16 am
Were you lost for words? I’m not! It has a price? Don’t you know?!
burqa Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:33 am
No, not lost for words. I posted the same reply as my last, only I enclosed the thing with the sideways-pointing arrows on my keyboard and I guess that is why it came up blank. So then I reposted using parentheses.
That said, I’m ready for another martini….
“PARTENNER!, an-uh-er martooni oafer here and giff one to jazmine, wha-effe she wants….”
jazmine Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 2:33 am
Whatever I crave, does not come in a Martini glass!
November 1st, 2009 at 10:59 pm
(burqa raises his giant martini glass, nods toward jazmine, and downs his drink)
jazmine Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:14 am
Why the Drama?
When you don’t give, you don’t get…Yes!?
Cheers:)
November 1st, 2009 at 11:22 pm
This is fantastic news.. I was just thinking “What could right wing nut jobs possibly do to screw up their chances of ever being in power again..and “Viola”
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:45 am
While driving across Country and being left alone with my own mind, I started thinking. These Republican New Agers have managed to offend anyone of a different race than white, anyone with a different Religious view than Extreme Christainity and half the white population and many Democratic or Centralist Christians. They are anti Government and have offended and frightened many of the Americans employed by the Government without providing how the Private Sector can replace their Jobs, if taxes are cut and they lose those Job. The job loss Industry has been facing, has been occuring for some time now. The ATA stared that the trucking Industry lost nearly $200,000 jobs with the biggest loss occuring in Jan. 2007. Now for the Trucking Industry to lose that many jobs in Jan. 2007, you know alot of Industry went down before that date. I’d be surprized if the New Age Republican think they can start to turn around their Losing streak by just shouting Socialist and Communist, being anti and claiming to cut taxes without looking at the the Big picture here and the consequences, at least at this time. I am not an Economist but I sent out E-mails to friends and family for several years before the so-called crash of 2008, warning them that was coming. It was not a sixth sense prediction, I was watching Industry. Now maybe there are some people who cannot define Socialism or Communism that will fall into the tent of the Republican Party fearful, just because people like Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh say so but I am willing to bet many more Americans are not only offended but they are concerned for the Economic Future and the trend of the last eight years. Many believe, the current practice of negative labeling is a smoke screen for protecting the Corporate theft and hudge profits to this Country, which has had a negative affect on the Private sector Business, Industry and great Job loss to many Americans. We may have a short memory, but not that short. They have given us nothing in meaningful solutions. The halo, they state. the New GOP now wears, well I don’t trust it! maybe I would be willing to take a better look at them, if they get rid of their current media mouth pieces and start talking to us in an intelligent, responsible, meaningful conversation rather than this crap, they are feeding the public. Then I may be willing to listen. Until then, I think the approach is tragic and I am glad my folks are not alive to see what happened to their Grand Old Party!
Daddio Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:50 am
Debby, so you support the ever increasing employment in the government sector?
Debby Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:53 am
Actually, we have not seen a great increase in jobs in the government sector during the last 40 to 50 yrs. The greatest spike Government Employment Jobs, was during the 40’s and of course WW2 was responsible for that. It filled that need during that that time in History and decreased, then pretty much leveled off with the most Government Jobs being on the state and local levels. With the Health Care Issue, I don’t think Private sector business and Industry will survive or be a strong support to maintain our standard of living unless Government plays a greater role in Collecting the American Health Care Dollars. Saddly, the Insurance Industry is, I believe mostly responsible for that. They cannot continue to take Trillions of American Health Care Dollars and hope we can survive or shift the blame. I would hope a Public Option would help bring down thier pertcentage of take but I don’t think this will be enough and may hurt fragile Industry trying to survive following the 2008 crash, (if they force business to provide Health Care.) I am also uncertain about the affordabilty in the bill. It is very confusing with % over poverty level, number of people in household and %premium. MN. answer for people denied coverage in MN. Comprehensive. It would cost my husband and I about $24,000 a yr. for health care Insurance and deductable. That is more than we can afford! Sorry!
Debby Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:34 am
If,( what did Lee say), 650,000 people(the size of Baltimore) filed for Medical Bankrupt. that had Insurance Coverage, the other 22% that did not have coverage are unable to pay their bills, the Health Care Industry take quite a hit. But then you have an additional 50 million people uninsured and unable to pay their bill. Well how could any business survive with that. I want profits remain with Doctors and staff provide care because that keeps the money circulating in our Communities and Country. Take the middle man out (the Insurance Industry) and I believe we can keep the profits where they belong, lower premiums which is good for business and helps us compete in the Global Economy and maybe still have enough left to fund Med. research and techno. You would be saving Trillions in wasted American Health Care Dollars and would not need to raise anyones taxes.
jasperjava Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:31 pm
you support the ever increasing employment in the government sector?
FDR helped mitigate the Great Depression by hiring thousands of unemployed men to work on massive short-term infrastructure projects, many of which are still in use today. It would be a good idea to do that today, use the stimulus money for shovel-ready projects in order to inject investment and encourage consumer spending. Then, once the pump is primed, the market sector takes over, employment rises, and the economy gets back on track.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:48 am
my PBS station ran a documentary about CCC last night. It was interesting.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:12 am
I am fondly recalling the Republican presidential debates, when they had about six candidates running. It was fascinating to see certain individuals claiming to be more conservative than their opponents.
I felt sorry for Gov. Mike Huckabee, as he was the more reasonable (moderate) of the bunch. Compared to the others, Mike was no pure conservative. In fact, he was being accused of being liberal.
As I read Richard Viguerie’s post, I can’t help but agree that the two parties do need a shaking out. Personally, I think the extreme right and the extreme left need to leave and form their own parties. Perhaps then they will learn just how accepted they really are.
Debby Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:41 am
Barry…sometimes when I look at Politics and Campaigning, it seems like a comedy. When the Issues are Jobs and Health, it is very serious, and I think they are interconnected. I believe, many Americans worked very hard to achieve the standard of living we have experienced as a Country. I believe, we are the Government and elect people we believe will best seved our interest and the welfare of our Country as a whole. I think the Private Sector Role and Goverment Role are intertwined and both provide benedfits for America. I also think it is harder for our elected officials to focus on the really serious Issues affecting Americans when Political Propaganda is always on the attack but that is the way it is. For those of us that fall for the Politcal Con or manipulation by Gable News station, well I think we were raised with a different standard of News reporting. My kids knew in their teens, Fox News was Political Propaganda but it took many years for my husband and I to turn it off. I guess, we didn’t want to believe it could come to this. We were in denial for some time. Actually, I sometimes wonder if both the Republicans and Democrats know, that the only way to protect Private Sector Business, slow more Job Loss and the future crash of the Health Care Industry, allow us to compete in the Global Economy is for us to adopt Single Payer System but wow thats a hard one for them! If more Industry leaves this Country , to avoid paying Employer Health Aid and new Business does not start because of the cost of Benefits, well…. The future projections for HealtH Care costs are grim. If the Insurance Industry continue to take at least 1/3 of the American Health Care Dollars and we Americans are left to fight for the remaining two thirds on the market along with all those not paying their Doctor, Clinic or Hospital Bills or who do not have Insurance Coverage well, grim outlook for the Future of Health Care Industry and our Country as well.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:41 am