Right-wingers seek 'dose of the Democrats' to rescue Republicans

[ck4829]

SIX years after George W Bush was elected president, the Republicans are revolting. Some conservatives have become so disillusioned with the President and his Republicans on Capitol Hill that they believe a heavy defeat in November's mid-term elections would be preferable to a narrow victory.

"Sometimes a loss for the Republican Party is a gain for conservatives," argues Richard Viguerie, a well-known conservative strategist.

"Often, a little taste of liberal Democrats in power is enough to remind the voters what they don't like about liberal Democrats and to focus the minds of Republicans on the principles that really matter," he says.

Fiscal conservatives and advocates of limited government have been appalled by the Bush administration's abandonment of those principles. Federal spending, far from being cut, has grown by an average of 10.4% each year since Bush came to power. Nearly a decade after Bill Clinton promised that the era of big government was over, Republican-controlled Washington has embraced the things it railed against in opposition.

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1374822006

[C_U_L8R]

1. They can run but they can't hide

we'll smoke those sneaky republicans out of their spider holes
and make em eat their words :-)

[acmejack]

2. Richard Viguerie is a scum sucker that gives carp a bad name!

The Republiclowns screw things up, then they blame the Dems when they cause pain fixing their screw ups! A "little taste of liberal Democrats in power" my dying ass!

[Dogmudgeon]

9. He gives "Carp" or "Crap" a bad name?

Actually, with Dickie V., it's both!

(Sorry. I usually don't pick on typos, but this one was very appropriate!)

:thumbsup:

--p!

[WildClarySage]

3. Republicans have always been revolting.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Richard has been compensated very well for his efforts advancing the PUBs

He is not objective at all...

He is part of the Problem and should be retired.

[keta11]

5. They just wanna hand over the disasters they have created

in the past 6 years over to the Democrats. I dont know what I want more - the opportunity to impeach the bufoon or to inherit the mess.

You and I know if Democrats take the house, Republicans will start blaming the Dem-led House in January, 2007 for high gas prices!!

[pretzel4gore]

6. the Golden Goose must die

911 says that the Rapepubliclowns (lol acmejack!) are willing to go to the depths o hell to hurt america - black, worker class, liberal, progressive ie 'clintonian' america....to think they now expect the very america they hate and plot against and injure and try ruin should now restore the golden goose to health so, they can count their blessings and, in a couple generations, they can do it all again!
fukk that
the dino's will be eager to steer the effort to fix up the pig's mess, but the dino's (al from, pelosi, donna brazile etc) themselves should be called busheviks....and pay the price for their treason

[Why Syzygy]

7. What's wrong with liberal Democrats?

Is that his way of being a closet liberal? Like call me an elephant, but I'm a donkey in disguise?
That makes no sense. I guess that's because I'm a liberal.

[KharmaTrain]

8. Of Course...Of Course...

This sounds like CYA-101. Vigurie has been pissed at booosh and Rove for a while and a big Repugnican loss in November would help him for 2008. Dare I say I predicted this long ago that the largess and hubris of this regime would eventuall catch up with them (they've been too feckless and wreckless) and when the party disintegrated you'd see some heads pop up and try to play "savior" of the party. McCain is trying that ploy right now. Don't be fooled about his posturing on the torture issue...he'll talk the talk, but in the late of night, he'll cave or "compromise"...but to the anti-booosh Repugnicans (and they're out there and growing), he looks like he's his "own man". Gnewt Gingrich is pulling this same shit on the other side of the fence. He's going after the right wingnuts who don't think we went far enough...the Buchanan wing.

The polling all over the beltway and the "CW" is the Repugnicans are gonna lose in November and there's sure to be a blood-letting thereafter (there always is when Repugnicans lose)...this is just manuevering for the "post Nov. 7th" world.

[Why Syzygy]

10. The largess and hubris

absolutely is catching up with them. You can only sow seeds of destruction for so long before harvest begins.

[magellan]

11. They can't say a thing without being condescending to the public

"Often, a little taste of liberal Democrats in power is enough to remind the voters what they don't like about liberal Democrats and to focus the minds of Republicans on the principles that really matter," he says.

When was the last time a liberal Democrat was in power? Not during my lifetime....

And those principles that "really matter" to Republicans -- is he talking about the war crimes, corruption, cronyism, habitual lying, propagandizing, smear campaigns, privatization, election fraud, bankruptcy of America, outsourcing of American jobs, anti-science clap-trap, brain drain, secret courts, illegal eavesdropping, state secrets, open hate speech, unconstitutional signing statements, 'free speech zones', campaigning on fear, or the general bullying and character assassination of anyone who doesn't agree with them?

Because aside from those things, the Republicans have got nothing.

[izzie]

12. I frankly would like to know where the Rep, are?

These crack-pots we have in there are hardly Rep. They can not run anything even their own Corp. which seem to also be in the tank.

[Berry Cool]

13. This is their sour-grapes spin they are already adopting in anticipation

of losing big time in November.

"It's OK. We knew we were going to lose because the voters are sick of us and our disgusting corruption and abuse of power. But you know what? As soon as the voters get reminded again of how incompetent the Dems are and how horrible their values are, we'll be back!"

In some ways they do have it right, in the sense that many of them have forgotten completely what being a conservative was originally all about (limiting government, keeping it out of people's private lives, fiscal responsibility, etc.). Too many Republicans have been all too eager to turn government into a vast, all-encompassing Big Brother operation, and to make it responsible for ensuring you follow the right religion and don't try to marry the wrong person. They have been all too willing to spend money like drunken sailors, so long as it was on programs they approved of or pork to make them look good to their constituents. Those people really DO need to get back in line and realize that true conservatives don't believe in having the government dictate people's private lives and they don't believe in wasting money on bridges to nowhere.

But that doesn't mean that people are going to magically turn around and start voting for them if they do.

[izzie]

14. It is odd. Bush said Dem things when he ran yet

we seem to have this. People saying they hate liberals yet when the subject comes up of how Am. think they seem to be thinking just like liberals. Yet they vote Rep. I have talked to people who swear they hate liberals and vote Rep. and if you talk to them they are Dem. I can not seem to fit that into my mind at all. The only thing that comes back to me is I always voted GOP as it was how I grew up and over time I started being all over the place in my vote into Dem.and others and one day I said I am a Dem. and that was it. Can we have a half the voters doing this?