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Conservative Icon Viguerie: "All Republican leaders must resign" 

Moderate Libertarians Poised to Become New Center-Right Opposition Party After Republicans Follow Whigs Into Oblivion 

By Kevin Barrett, http://www.barrettforcongress.us 

Richard Viguerie, the founding father of modern conservative strategy, has called on all Republican leaders, from Bush and Cheney on down, to resign immediately. 

Viguerie's stunning statement, reproduced in full below, heralds the complete destruction of the Republican party. Top Republicans' involvement in the 9/11 cover-up, and their responsibility for the criminal 9/11 wars that have trashed our economy, our reputation, and our Constitution, is gradually being understood by the American people. The result: The Republicans are heading for an unprecedented electoral disaster followed by the complete and permanent demise of the party founded by anti-slavery activists in 1854. 

The Democrats, who went along with the 9/11 coverup and the 9/11 wars, are equally guilty of high treason and crimes against humanity. Unfortunately, most voters, bombarded by corporate media lies, do not understand that the Democrats are nearly as morally and intellectually bankrupt as the Republicans. 

The implosion of the Republican Party opens up a void on the right side of the American political spectrum. The party in the best position to fill that void - if its members are smart enough to rein in their ideologues and move to the sensible center - is the Libertarian Party. 

The Libertarians are the natural heirs to the moribund Republicans for several reasons. First, unlike the other conservative third party, the Constitution Party, the Libertarian party has a left as well as a right wing, which makes it a potential party of moderation. Libertarians oppose empire, wars, and the excesses of the prison-industrial complex. They want to end the racist "war on drugs" and stop imprisoning half of America's young black males. They favor decriminalizing marijuana and legalizing hemp farming for paper, oil, fabrics, and biofuels. They generally oppose the racist, genocidal war on Islam. They are "progressive" in the sense of welcoming the transformative possibilities of new communications technologies. All of these attributes will help the Libertarian party move from the right fringe toward the center, and become a major party rather than a third party, by attracting support from the left as well as the right. 

Along with their potentially centrist platform, the Libertarians, unlike today's Republicans, are bona fide fiscal conservatives. The single biggest thing the Republicans used to have going for them was their fiscal conservatism. While the Democrats were perceived as the big spenders, the Republicans were the party that could be trusted to spend the taxpayers' money sensibly. Today, the Democrats are still big spenders, but the Republicans are even bigger spenders! Reagan set the tone by outspending Carter with his foolish and costly military build-up - and now Bush and Cheney have completely bankrupted the country with their idiotic "war on terror." The new major party that replaces the Republicans will have to be grounded in fiscal conservatism, and Libertarians are strong fiscal conservatives. 

The Republican-to-Libertarian shift will be driven by the Ron Paul phenomenon. Ron Paul is the only 2008 presidential candidate with significant grass-roots support. While it is true that Obama, like Dr. Paul, is getting lots of small contributions and exciting popular fervor, Obama's campaign is astroturf, not grass-roots. Obama, as Webster Tarpley explains in Obama: The Postmodern Coup, is the candidate of a "color revolution" orchestrated by the left wing of the City of London/Wall Street financiers and their intelligence assets. Obama's phony grassroots support will quickly fade, while Ron Paul's genuine grassroots base will continue to grow - and as the Republican Party collapses, it will move to its natural home, the Libertarian Party. 

To succeed in replacing the Republicans as a major party, the Libertarians will need to move forcefully toward the center. Currently the Libertarian Party is too easily labeled as the home of extremists and ideologues. Many voters think Libertarians are people who want to take away Social Security and let poor old folks starve to death. They think Libertarians want to abolish public education and unions, and let the super-rich and the big corporations run rampant while ordinary people suffer.  

To counter this image at a moment when ordinary people are hurting, and will be voting their pocketbooks, Libertarians need to reassure voters that, if elected, they will not quickly abolish all of the public enterprises and social safety nets that are providing a living for many tens of millions of people. (The safety nets will be even more important as the economy tanks due to Bush's wars.) Naomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine makes it clear that sudden impositions of libertarian economic principles are not only politically impossible except under conditions of brutal authoritarian rule, but also impose tremendous, unacceptable costs in human suffering. Libertarians should insist on gradual rather than sudden economic transformations, beginning with the most useless or harmful enterprises. The mass murder industry euphemistically known as "the military," the pork-laden mind-control program known as "Homeland Security," and the kidnapping and torture industry known as the prison-industrial complex, would be good places to start. As people from these unproductive sectors lose their jobs, there will still be a need for safety nets to tide them over until they can retrain and find productive employment. 

As they move to the center, Libertarians will need to deliver the coup de grace to the Republican Party. They will have to bash it mercilessly from the center-right even harder than the Democrats are bashing it from the left. They will have to endlessly hammer the Republicans for abandoning true conservatism in favor of radical Straussian/Trotskyite neoconservatism, even as they slam the Democrats for fecklessness and irresponsibility. Finally, Libertarians will have to have the guts to nail the Republicans for 9/11 high treason. (A Libertarian party perceived as patriotic and center-right is in a better position to pursue treason charges against the Republicans than a Democratic party that is not only widely viewed lefty and less patriotic, but that is itself at least passively complicit in the same act of high treason.) Without such a concerted attack from the center-right, the Republicans might straggle on for a few years or decades, perhaps even regrouping before the Libertarians take their place. That would be a tragic missed opportunity not only for the Libertarian Party, but also for the USA. 

The United States of America is a nation founded on an idea, not an ethnicity. That idea, in a word, is freedom. In the Libertarian Party, liberty isn't just our middle name - it's our first, last, and only name. At a time when the USA seems to have lost its identity, the Libertarian party's name, and the principle for which it stands, reminds us of what our nation is really all about. If the Libertarian party has the courage and vision to seize the day and become the new mainstream center-right party, it could down in history as the salvation of a mortally-threatened nation. 

All Republican leaders must resign 

Written by Richard Viguerie on Wed May 14 11:48:26 -0400 2008 

Republican leaders in the White House, the Congress, and the Republican National Committee and its affiliates, along with most Republican leaders at the state level, have failed – or outright betrayed – the conservative voters who put them in their positions. 

The result is that the party’s “brand” has become a negative, to an extent greater than in the Watergate era, perhaps worse than in the days of Herbert Hoover. 

The number of new Republican voters is flat while Democratic voter registration is skyrocketing.

Contributions to GOP candidates and Republican parties are way off, while donations to Democrats are setting records. 

In primaries, votes for Republican candidates at all levels are running far behind the Democrats.

And in recent special elections, the party lost longheld congressional seats in Illinois, in Louisiana, and, yesterday, in Mississippi – all in districts carried overwhelmingly by President Bush. A single election can be a fluke, but when Republicans lose three seemingly safe seats in a row, disaster is looming. 

The hard work of the last 50 years by millions of conservative campaign workers, donors, candidates, writers, intellectuals, and activists has been trashed. The conservative movement has been set back 10-20 years – possibly even permanently – by politicians consumed by power, including but certainly not limited to Denny Hastert, Tom DeLay, John Boehner, Roy Blunt, Mitch McConnell, Trent Lott, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, party chairman Mike Duncan, and their friends.

Some deserve more of the blame than others, but they are all part of a party Establishment that has brought the party down. 

For things to change, for conservatives to be justified in giving our contributions, our volunteer efforts, our energy, and votes to the GOP, the party must clean house. The party leadership should resign immediately. 

We must replace the Big Government/Big Business/Establishment Republicans with principled conservatives, most of them young. By “principled conservatives,” I mean leaders who will stand up to the liberals and fight for freedom and traditional values. 

Republicans are doomed to wander in the political wilderness until this generation of weak-kneed, no-vision, inarticulate, afraid-of-the-liberal-media politicians are replaced mostly with principled conservatives in the mold of Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.

Voters almost always reject a pale imitation in favor of the real thing. 

The Democrats have firm principled beliefs. What motivates most Republican leaders? Nothing except a craving for power. What do Republicans offer voters? Nothing except “Elect us because we’re not Democrats.” 

To Republican leaders, I say: You turned against the principles you once espoused – conservative principles – and, in turn, conservatives and the American people have turned against you. Things will not get better until you accept responsibility, and resign. 

You have stayed too long. For the future of the Republican Party, for America and the cause of freedom: Go!
 

Richard A. Viguerie, president of ConservativeHQ.com: The Conservative Headquarters, is author of the new book, Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause. His email is rav@conservativesbetrayed.com.
 

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