“Rushification” Is Inevitable Result of GOP Leaders’ Incompetence (Guest Voice)
Editor’s Note: The Rush Limbaugh controversy continues to rage with lots of stories in the mainstream media, continued blog posts and major coverage on cable news channels and talk shows of the left and right. The following is an email release from veteran conservative Richard Viguerie. We’re posting it in full here as a Guest Voice due to the interest in this story and because it represents a different perspective than other posts on this site.
Viguerie: “Rushification” is inevitable result of GOP leaders’ incompetence
Manassas, VA – Broadcasters and commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage are seen as the de facto leaders of the Republican Party for a simple reason, Richard A. Viguerie said today: “It’s because no one else is acting like a Republican leader.”
“The ‘Rushification’ of the GOP is the natural and inevitable result of the fact that those who are supposed to provide leadership – Republican elected officials and party officers – are doing little to bring the party back,” said Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com.
“Nature abhors a vacuum, and there is no vacuum in nature as empty as the leadership of the Republican Party today.”
Said Viguerie: “The GOP absolutely refuses to replace the Congressional leaders who helped get the party and the country into this mess. There are many Republican governors campaigning for the Obama ‘stimulus’ plan that is wrecking the economy and will push America deeper into socialism. Governor Jindal’s speech was technocratic, without passion and toothless, and Michael Steele’s foolish attack on Rush Limbaugh will, I’m sure, cost the party many millions in contributions.”
The anger of grassroots conservatives continues unabated at the weak-kneed, spineless, earmark –loving Republicans.
In contrast to GOP officials, “Limbaugh and Hannity and most all of their conservative colleagues have something to say. They actually believe in something. They have the confidence of their convictions. They don’t cower in fear of the President’s popularity. They know that his popularity is built on the sand of false promises and false premises. Like Ronald Reagan facing the Soviet Union, they know how this story ends.”
Even Jim Cramer of CNBC, who isn’t a conservative, is providing more honest and outspoken leadership than the ‘loyal opposition’ about how Obama’s policies are destroying the life savings of Americans.
“Americans are already beginning to realize that the new president is every bit as reckless and extreme as conservatives said he was,” Viguerie said. “But the Republican Party can’t get any traction, because the party leadership is as confused and clueless as the Obama administration.”
Richard A. Viguerie pioneered political direct mail and has been called “one of the creators of the modern conservative movement” (The Nation magazine), one of the “conservatives of the century” (The Washington Times), and one of 2008′s “top 25 influencers” among Republicans (NewsMax magazine). He is the author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause.
5 Responses to ““Rushification” Is Inevitable Result of GOP Leaders’ Incompetence (Guest Voice)”
This column is exactly why the Administration's Rush strategy is successful. It sows infighting among conservatives and Republicans precisely at the time the Democrats are advancing the most progressive legislation in decades.
Rush Limbaugh February 13, 2009:
“I'll say it again. Not only do I want Obama to fail, I want this package to fail. I want this to blow up in their face.
I hope the stimulus bill fails. I hope it does exactly what we know it will do, blow everything to smithereens and not do one thing that has been promised. Apparently, experience is the greatest teacher, and when these poor people who think Barack Obama means a new house, a new car, a new job, when they find out that's not what Barack Obama means, maybe then they'll see. So I hope that happens.
I hope Obama fails. Now the bill has passed the House. I hope when they implement it, that it fails. If I hope it fails beforehand, I better hope it fails afterwards to be consistent, right?”
Elrod,
The question is whether there will be a middle class left after the Democrats fully implement their progressive legislation. How man jobs and businesses is the Obama Administration willing to throw under the bus so that the government can control the healthcare industry, the energy industry, the transportation industry.
Does anyone really believe that education will improve when there is a 40 year history of complete failure by progressive Democrats. Does anyone really believe that a progressive agenda will ever create jobs or increase productivity? Does anyone on the left really believe that the U.S. can have a massive expansion of the welfare state while maintaining open borders?
SD – The policies of FDR and Eisenhower created the middle class, not tax cuts. But DDE would be a “libral RINO” in today's environment.
It makes me sad to see conservatives so angry. They never apologize when they're wrong. I guess we'll just have to put up with their little tantrums. They have to calm down eventually