New right-wing group to have $17 million budget.
By on Oct 5th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
New right-wing group to have $17 million budget.
Claiming the Republican party has “been betrayed by corruption and betrayal of conservative principles,” a “group of former aides to Ronald Reagan” are “reviving the organization that brought Reagan to power.” The group, Citizens For The Republic, includes former Reagan attorney general Richard Allen; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and conservative activists Brent Bozell and Gary Bauer. It “has already secured $17 million in solid financial commitments.” Steve Benen and Matthew Yglesias have more.
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my initial reaction was “Oh god, another facist astroturf group” but if it further fractures the republican party, it might not be a bad thing.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:30 pmI love how these clowns, now that their original “revolution” has been revealed to be an enormous fraud on the American people are now screaming that they were “betrayed”. We are supposed to go, “Gee, we’re sorry that your erroneous roadmap led you to drive off a cliff–here are the keys again. Do try to drive safer this time.”
October 5th, 2007 at 3:34 pmAnother right wing “grass roots” clusterf*ck.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:34 pmLook, honey! It’s fascists on parade!
October 5th, 2007 at 3:37 pmhow cute. just remember, a repuke is a repuke no matter how you dress ‘em up!
October 5th, 2007 at 3:37 pmAnd this group of wingers is different from the current crop, how?
October 5th, 2007 at 3:38 pmRemember..Newt’s happen when 63% of the voter’s don’t vote……Blessings
October 5th, 2007 at 3:39 pmThese are the same retards that we have been telling for years that their party has been overrun by neocons, just called us liberal whackos.
Well, the liberal whackos were right you fu*king idiots. You think you could pay attention next time instead of just driving off the fu*king cliff?
October 5th, 2007 at 3:40 pmSo, what do they plan on doing with the 17 million dollars?
It’s too bad that the Goldwater Republicans don’t get together and form their own representative group, because they are what the Republican party has lost. I know five former Goldwater Republicans who are today Democrats. Actually, if you go back and read some of the things that Goldwater wrote, he sounds a lot more like a Democrat today than like a Republican.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:40 pmWrong time..wrong place….America is ready for social responsibility. Rightwing fascism is going out of style. The best part is the fascists are self distructing….the irony..can’t blame Dems.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:43 pmThey’ll use some of the money to dig St. Ronnie up and run him.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:43 pmThey’ll use some of the money to dig St. Ronnie up and run him.
-Comment by blogenfreude
And have McPain make jokes about him / it.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:47 pm$17 million dollars.
Newt, you have enough money now to go after Thompson’s wife.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:49 pmOhh Grrrreat! THE ORIGINAL IDIOTS: THAT SAY Only a smarter more elite group of thinkers should be running the country. Regular joes on the street should not be allowed to have a say. THEY ARE FOR CONTROL OF THE ‘PROCESS’ OF GOVERNMENT.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:51 pmRed Pill
October 5th, 2007 at 3:53 pmLook, honey! It’s fascists on parade!
Elwood: Illinois Nazis.
Jake: I hate Illinois Nazis.
right, leftcoast. The same people who set the stage for the current state of right wing politics. Just a wealthier brand of authoritarians.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:54 pmWhen are these people going to learn?
Reagan is dead.
Get over it! And Reagan didn’t bring down the Soviet Union (someone tell Fred Thompson it no longer exists), OPEC did.
October 5th, 2007 at 3:55 pmComment by Candyce — October 5, 2007 @ 3:54 pm
October 5th, 2007 at 3:58 pmYep, the more things change the more they stay the same. People need to start looking strongly at the usurption of the ‘process’ of government. Government is in the details, not the man or woman in charge.
And Nancy Reagan is the Honary Chairman Ermeritus
First important order of business:
Get RONNIE’s face on the Dime .10
“W”, BuschCo and company have majored trashed this effort since they took office and wrecked the GOP mo with the average voter.
Doubt Nancy will ever live to see the day given the state of the country and how much the conservatives have proven to be a massive nightmare for the world in general.
Hang in there Nancy! maybe by 2035
October 5th, 2007 at 3:59 pmGreat post # 2.Where were newt & the rest of Repukes when Bushco were telling lies and destroying our country.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:03 pmDivided and conquered.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:04 pmwoo hoo! … so maybe all the “independents” and 3rd–party-poopers here won’t ruin it for the dems, again, after all… but then again…
not to count those chickens before the eggs have hatched…
but, i’ve been hearing lately about another “conservative” group,
comprised of RICHARD VIGORY, TONY PERKINS, JAMES DOBSON…
who want to run a 3rd party candidate if rudy gets the nod…
i have an idea:
LET’S LET THE REPUGS DIVIDE THEMSELVES UP THIS TIME.
eh?
OVERWHELMING DEMOCRATIC VOTER TURNOUT.
THEN THEY CAN’T STEAL THE ELECTION.
get used to it… heh…
October 5th, 2007 at 4:07 pm.
This has been the Republican strategy for some time now. When it finally became apparent, even to the wingnuts, that they could no longer defend their heinous movement, they started yelling, “We’ve been betrayed! The Republicans who got control and ruined our country aren’t really conservatives, and we never did like them anyway! We were just foolin’ when we supported them all those years. Just elect us real conservative Republicans and everything will be great next time!”
October 5th, 2007 at 4:09 pmBetrayal of conservative principles, like small government and fiscal responsibility? Conservative principles like open and accountable government? Conservative principles like governing with the consent of the governed? People can trot out St. Ronald the Revered, but he was an awful president! Does anyone out there remember the savings and loans debacle that occured on his watch? Does anyone remember how he broke the air traffic controller’s union, and the fact that we the people are still paying for it today? The Republicans bought into the neocon idiocy 6 years ago. They had their drunken fling, now its time to pay the monsterous bill that they rang up so happily.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:10 pmImpeach Bush and Cheney and Save the Constitution!
Great. It’s the SOF (Senile Old Fart) Party.
YAY!!
October 5th, 2007 at 4:10 pmLet these Fascist Scumbags throw their money down the toilet. Who cares?
October 5th, 2007 at 4:11 pmMaybe they’ll bring voodoo economics back as well.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:11 pmThe GOP recognizes that it will soon have zero power so the senile old men with money are trying for a quick fix. Ain’t going to work boys! sorry.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:11 pmHm. The Organization Otherwise Known as Republican Adulterers and Closet Cases…
certainly the kind of bunch that middle America wants to follow into another war!
October 5th, 2007 at 4:14 pmI remember the ‘trickle down’ effect of Reaganomics.
All I got out of it was pissed on.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:15 pmmake sure you reserve those names for the list going to the Hague in 2009
October 5th, 2007 at 4:17 pmWhy do they think throwing money at the problem will fix anything, the only thing it draws is the same bunch of corrupted souls cloaking themselves in pseudo-morals.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:17 pmOh, the other Fascist Pigs, I see. Just the other side of the same coin.
Buck Fush
October 5th, 2007 at 4:26 pmOnly Republicans would start with a shitload of money to combat “corruption”!
LOL. Oh man that’s rich.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:29 pmDr. Dobson says the reported splintering of the conservatives is not happening. DrD doesn’t post on TP but he does find a national “stage†from which to speak.
His New York Times Op-Ed: ‘The Values Test’ is linked from http://www.family.org. The piece gives a brief summary of what happened in SLC last Saturday.
Some of Dr. Dobson’s words from NYT:
Well. This campaign is certainly shaping up interestingly.
Before the votes are counted this election will become a test between those who believes in God , and those who don’t.
That’s belief in the Christian God in case some TP posters are not clear.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:32 pmwayne s. @3:55 pm – your comment reminded me of this quote…
thom hartmann plays it frequently:
“Roosevelt is dead. His policies may live but we’re in the process of doing something about that as well” -the limpballs
never ever doubt them when they tell you what they are…
October 5th, 2007 at 4:35 pmpompous @ss…
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They’ll use some of the money to dig St. Ronnie up and run him.
-Comment by blogenfreude
Put some skates and roll him around, let Nancy actually run things, it will be just like his 2nd term. =P
October 5th, 2007 at 4:47 pmYou know, no matter how bad the republicans do this next election, I honestly believe they could have a decent shot at taking it all back in 2012 – if they can keep each other from constantly getting arrested. They just need to keep their noses clean and stay quiet for the next four years and then they will seriously stand a chance.
October 5th, 2007 at 5:24 pmOf course, our side doesn’t have the inside track on Chinese communists or Bhudist temples so we are opperating at a slight disadvantage.
Comment by Godfather2 — October 5, 2007 @ 5:09 pm
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Well, there is always hope.
October 5th, 2007 at 5:28 pmEven though I am a social liberal, there are a couple of conservatives from the Reagan years that I could have some trust in them.
OTOH – Newtie is one of the founding members ??????? Considering how he accelerated the slide to where we are now, how is this anything but a shallow attempt to pretend that the neocons weren’t involved with Shrub. Can I assume Ollie North will march in with Rush Limbaugh at his side ?
October 5th, 2007 at 5:45 pmAm I correct ….Does OBL have a more popular rating than Preznit Booosh…..well…will wonders never cease.
October 6th, 2007 at 12:04 am>That’s belief in the Christian God in case some TP posters are not clear.
the point of difference between this “god ” and muslims “god” is the christian god impregnated more mortals with his holy seed? or is it something else?
wheres Norman Hsu? Hiding under a bed with Jackoff Amramhoff. Care to compare and contrast them? I’m still waiting for that list of specific dollar amounts AbrMhammy gave to democrats, bigfoots promised to get it to me any day now..
>Nah, but he does have a higher popularity rating than your Democrat >Congress..
bigfoot you got any stats on how the republican minority in congress rates?
October 6th, 2007 at 10:38 amor is that not IntellEgent enough discussion for you? hahahaha
Guys you know why the bible humpers are doing this, right?
October 6th, 2007 at 10:41 amThey run a hopeless third party presidential candidate to motivate thier people to show up to the polls.. this will dampen (not completely, but partially) their losses in congress.. if the bible humpers stay home en masse, it will be a real massacre for rethugs, they probably wouldnt even be able to retain a filibuster/obsctructionist minority in either chamber..