Richard Viguerie Says: MESSAGE TO REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS: "YOU'RE FIRED!"
Entire Republican Leadership in Congress Should be Replaced Election was Referendum on Bush, GOP Leaders, and 'Neoconservatives'
NOVEMBER 8, 2006 (Manassas, VA) - At a news conference in Washington D.C. today, conservative strategist Richard A. Viguerie reacted strongly to yesterday's elections by stating that "Every single member of the Republican leadership in the House should be replaced. They have failed the conservatives who put them in office, and they have failed the people of this country."
Viguerie and other conservative leaders, including L. Brent Bozell III, Wendy Wright and David N. Bossie gathered at the National Press Club to analyze the results of the 2006 elections and to indicate the plans for the conservative movement in 2007. It was noted that yesterday was a referendum on George W. Bush and his war on Iraq, and since voters couldn't vote to fire Bush, they did the next best thing -- they fired HIS PARTY.
SOME OF THE OTHER STATEMENTS MADE TODAY BY RICHARD VIGUERIE:
"Congressional Republicans should move as fast as they can to distance themselves from the Bush White House and the Big Business wing of the Republican Party. That's the only way to come back from this disaster."
"This election was also a referendum on the so-called 'neoconservatives' -- the Big Government Republicans who took us into a nation-building war while they busted the budget and enriched Big Business and its K Street lobbyists."
"The only thing Denny Hastert & Company cared about was holding onto power. That's what led them to become Kings of Pork. That's what led them to protect the likes of Mark Foley."
"One thing this election was NOT is a repudiation of conservatism. The twin pillars of conservatism -- smaller government and traditional values -- have the support of the same voters who threw out the Republican Congress."
"Congressional Republicans should quickly disassociate themselves from the failed big government policies of President Bush and set a conservative course...at the same time, grassroots conservatives must no longer act as an appendage of the Republican Party. We should concentrate instead on becoming a Third Force in American politics that forces both parties to the Right and sets the nation's agenda. In that regard, we should reach out to the new Democrats of 2006 and see whether they are indeed prepared to vote differently from San Francisco Democrats."
"Today starts the new war for the heart and soul of the Republican Party."
** TO READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE on today's event, please go to the following link: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061108/dcw022.html?.v=87
Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of American Target Advertising, pioneered ideological and political direct mail and has been called “the funding father of the conservative movement” for his role in helping build dozens of conservative organizations. He is the author of 5 books including the newly released Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (Bonus Books, 2006).
FULL PRESS MATERIALS/BIO AVAILABLE AT: www.bonusbooks.com/epk/cbepk.pdf