Note: The Following Letter was developed by Travis Johnson, the founder of Progressive Republicans.

We, the Undersigned, as long-time, loyal Republicans, supporters of the Party’s candidates and its core values of smaller, more efficient government, individual liberty and personal freedom condemn in the strongest possible fashion the circumstances and actions of so-called “conservatives” who have driven Senator Arlen Specter and many of our best and brightest from our Party. We also call on every member of the Party to take action to bring our Party back from the brink of irrelevancy.

We call for the RNC leadership to take this opportunity to begin an honest, frank, open and, most importantly inclusive “soul-searching” exercise, to determine what has been driving individuals out of the Party and to create a comprehensive strategy to reverse this trend.

We ask for the rank and file members of the Party who have turned on the members of the Party who don’t always agree with them to rethink their positions and ask themselves, as Senator John Cornyn has “Would I rather have an ally who supports me and my agenda 90% of the time, or an opponent who never supports me?”

We also ask the Republicans who have thought about leaving to reconsider. Now is the time to fight for our Party and our country. America cannot afford to a single party government, not in good times, and especially not now when we face almost unprecedented economic, ideological and real military threats. Our nation needs to hear voices who advocate efficient use of government funds, fight to safeguard America’s hard-earned assets and defend the lives and well-being of the American people.

We ask, lastly, for those who have left the Party to think about coming back home. Things have been tough for some time, but together, we can stop this downward spiral and bring our Party, the Party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Wilson Reagan, Republican Party back from the brink. We can make this a Party ALL OF US can be proud of.

Signed,

Travis G. Johnson (Reston, VA – Founder, Progressive Republicans)

Richard Ivory (New York, NY – Founder, Hip Hop Republicans)

DeLille Jett Anthony

Karl Von Batten (Washington, DC)

Dr. Oname Burlingame, M.D (Boston, MA)

Joshua David Boyer (Liverpool, OH)

Michael Carroll (Washington, DC)

Tyler Craft (Chairman Emeritus of the University of Mississippi College Republicans)

Mike Daigler

Jim DiPeso (Seattle, WA – Vice President for Policy and Communications, Republicans for Environmental Protection)

Susan McMaster Douclef (Cincinnati, OH)

Stephen Drachler (Harrisburg, PA)

Nadra Enzi (Savannah, GA)

Pamm Garber (South Bend, IN)

William Golden (Washington, DC – CEO Intelligencecareers.com)

Sean Christopher Hawkins

Michael L. Keaton (Washington, DC)

Jeni Kunz (San Francisco, CA)

Bob Linhares (New York, NY)

Shana Orczyk (Boston, MA)

Martin Rybicki (San Antonio, TX)

Brian Samuel (Metairie, LA)

Dennis Sanders (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN)

James N. Smith (Franklin, MA)

Darius Thomson (Auburn Hills, MI)

Update: If you are a Republican that is interested in signing this letter, you can contact Travis by going to contact-at-progressiverepublican-dot-info.