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Conservatives Put GOP Leadership On Notice
November 17, 2010
Conservatives Put GOP Leadership On Notice
Thomas Lifson
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A large number of conservative leaders are laying their cards on the table for the establishment GOP to see. They will not sit still for co-optation, and are backing Senator DeMint to the hilt. The following letter has been drafted and signed, and is being delivered to the GOP leadership today. American Thinker has received an advance copy, and it is below:
TO: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele
FROM: The Undersigned Conservatives
Declaration of Conservative Leaders in Support Of Senator Jim DeMint
Senator Jim DeMint has been blamed directly or indirectly for the failure to capture a majority in the Senate by named and/or unnamed Republican senators, staffers and consultants.
Such false and unfair attacks aid and abet President Obama, the Democratic Party and the liberal media. We consider such attacks on Senator Jim DeMint an attack on us and all conservatives, and especially the conservative movement that is the successor to Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, Jr., and other great progenitors of the conservative movement.
Perhaps more than any other Republican, Senator Jim DeMint is not only responsible for the net Republican gains in the Senate in the 2010 election, but has helped restore faith in the Republican Party as the party of constitutionally limited government. He greatly energized the base of the Party, and therefore contributed to historic wins in the House, governorships and state legislatures across the country.
In fact, Senator Jim DeMint's unilateral efforts to bring constitutional small government conservatives into the Senate has encouraged many conservatives to stay within the Republican Party, vote for Republican candidates, and even may have staved off formation of a third party and the demise of the Republican Party.
We do not expect or advocate for ideological purity in the Republican Party, but we do expect the Party's leadership to rein in those who unfairly attack Senator DeMint, who instead should be given credit for what he has done, and done with such class, honor, humility, dignity and patriotism.
Since Republicans in and affiliated with the Senate who have attacked Senator Jim DeMint have an agenda, and may not heed calls to reason from the Republican leadership, let it be known that continued attacks, whether indirectly or anonymously, will result in conservatives' responding in word and deed.
Conservatives will not only challenge and beat more Republican senators in Republican primaries, but conservatives will stop funding and volunteering for the NRSC and the RNC. Instead, conservatives will send their money to, and volunteer for, Senator DeMint's Senate Conservative Fund and the candidates Senator DeMint supports. In fact, it would be our goal for the Senate Conservatives Fund to raise more money than the NRSC.
Conservatives will also work to defeat in Republican primaries those Republicans who retain consultants who criticize or try to undermine Senator DeMint.
Respectfully,
(organizations named for identification purposes only)
Ted Baehr Christian Film and Television Commission
Gary Bauer President, American Values
Lee Beaman Businessman
Joel Belz World Magazine
Jerry Black Legacy Planning Group, Inc.
Brent Bozell Media Research Center
John Bradburne Bradburne Consulting
Joe R. Calvert Rabon-Calvert Interests
Angelo Codevilla Professor Emeritus Boston University
David Y Denholm President, Public Service Research Council
Donald Devine Editor, Conservative Battleline
Miles M. Dewhirst Dewhirst & Dolven, LLC
John Dodd President, Jesse Helms Center Foundation
H. Paul Einarsson Conflict Free Energy
Karen England Capitol Resource Institute
Erick Erickson Red State.com
Tricia Erickson Angel Pictures & Publicity, Crisis Management, Inc., The Conservative Pundit
Michael Farris
Mark Fitzgibbons American Target Advertising, Inc.
Bob Fischer Fischer Furniture, Inc.
Jeffrey M. Frederick Former Chairman, Republican Party of Virginia
Colin A. Hanna
Donna Hearne The Constitutional Coalition
Micah Hobart Paperless Transaction Corporation
Gary A. Hofmeister The Steamboat Institute
Dee Hodges Chairman, Maryland Taxpayers Association
Jason Jones The Human Rights Education and Relief Organization (HERO)
Suhail A. Khan Chairman, Conservative Inclusion Coalition Board Member, ACU
Michael Patrick Leahy Co-founder, Nationwide Tea Party Coalition
Jordan Marks Young Americans for Freedom
Bradley Mattes Life Issues Institute
Troy Newman Operation Rescue
David Noebel President, Summit Ministries; President, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade
Richard Norman The Richard Norman Company
Randy Page South Carolinians for Responsible Government
Judson Phillips Tea Party Nation
Larry Pratt Executive Director, Gun Owners of America
Penny Pullen Illinois State Representative 1977-1993; State President, Eagle Forum of Illinois
Ann Quest
Jamie Radtke Chairwoman, Virginia Tea Party Patriot Federation; President, Richmond Tea Party
Dr. Don Racheter Founder and Moderator, Iowa Wednesday Group
Robert E. Reccord
Alfred S. Regnery Publisher, The American Spectator
Daniel Riehl RiehlWorldView
Ron Robinson Young America's Foundation
Drew Ryun President, American Majority Action
Kelly Shackelford Liberty Institute
Craig Shirley Author and President, Shirley & Banister Public Affairs
Arthur Thompson
John and Teresa Trulio
Lois Verleur
Richard Viguerie ConservativeHQ.com
Bill Walton Rappahannock Ventures
Mark West The Chattanooga Tea Party
Somers H. White Former Arizona State Senator
Wendy Wright Concerned Women for America
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