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Conservative icon Richard Vigeurie says GOP offers conservative voters nothing this election, Democratic House may help cut back on spending
by John in DC - 10/26/2006 09:11:00 PM

Richard Viguerie is commonly considered the father of direct mail marketing. He is one of "the" gurus of the entire conservative movement, going back decades.

Note that in this email he just sent to his list he not only blasts the Republicans, in shockingly harsh language, as offering voters nothing, he also says that it would probably be better if the Dems wont back one house of Congress.

And one final, very telling point. Viguerie provides a list of issues the GOP must focus on in order to win back ec economic and social conservatives - yet he doesn't mention one single social issue of concern to those who are commonly considered "social conservatives," the religious right. Abortion and gays are missing totally from his list. So are school prayer, the Ten Commandments, flag burning and pretty much every other issue the religious right cares and screams about.

We are witnessing the beginnings of a Republican civil war that is very much at odds with the current GOP leadership and the religious right.

Here's a portion of Viguerie's email
Read the Rest at : http://americablog.blogspot.com/

Everybody should check out the excellent CBS news interview with Michael J. Fox. And the shameful ad the Republicans put out to counter Fox's ad is full of lies, but that is no surprise.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/26/eveningnews/main2128188.shtml

This is pretty neat.

Quotes of the Day!

http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1551087,00.html

Hard for this old liberal to imagine fondly the conservative days of Barry Goldwater. At least there was integrity and a concern, real concern, for the country, it's institutions, and yes, its people. The current crop of ignorant radicals in power have no relationship to the substantive conservative movement. Barry only said, "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice", Georgie porgie went beyond the boundaires of extremism in the perverted psychological test of his manhood. It failed.

The Year Of Playing Dirtier
Negative Ads Get Positively Surreal

By Michael Grunwald
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 27, 2006; Page A01

Rep. Ron Kind pays for sex!

Well, that's what the Republican challenger for his Wisconsin congressional seat, Paul R. Nelson, claims in new ads, the ones with "XXX" stamped across Kind's face.

The Year Of Playing Dirtier - washingtonpost.com