Say Anything Blog

In a mindnumbing display of sheer nerve Richard A. Viguerie, an open Paul supporter, writes an appeal to Open Up The GOP Race. In this article he’s offering we must now find a candidate who clearly holds the “three-legged stool” of economic, national security and social conservatives in bringing the base together.

Viguerie is famous for being the “funding father of the conservative movement” by starting various conservative groups and used direct mail to help Reagan get elected. Now, he will be infamous for attacking and assisting the exit of the only candidate in the race who clearly had the qualifications without which Viguerie predicts we will not win.

By supporting Ron Paul, whose party affiliation is closest to the Libertarians but, even they disavow him, Viguerie declares that he has grown far more than impatient, he is now a fanatic himself who can’t come to grips that he has helped to create the situation we now face of three liberal candidates running on the republican ticket.

Apparently oblivious to or trying to erase from our view the high price of his continuous rantings of insignificance against Fred Thompson and a wrongheaded support of a fringe candidate Vaguerie turns to us not to apologize for his wrongheadedness but, to point as if in a new direction he should have taken from the beginning...as if leading conservatives to join together instead of revealing exactly what cost us the 2008 election.

Richard A. Viguerie is an example of what is so vividly wrong with conservative leadership. He chased his fringe views in denying what is inherently correct only to spin around as if he never left our side...we watch and more importantly we see and remember.

Let this exposure serve as the first warning shot to our alleged leaders of our party where they will be held accountable for their actions.