IT AIN'T AS EASY SELLING THE RIGHT WING TALKING POINTS AS IT USED TO BE. VIGUERIE CLAIMS 77% OF CONSERVATIVES ARE PISSED OFF-- AT REPUBLICANS

There's a magazine that caters to direct marketers, DM NEWS, short for Direct Marketing News. Right wing database guru Richard Viguerie is a legendary figure for these folks and his bald pate graces the cover of their current issue. But the songs he's singing these days aren't the sweet siren tunes conservatives are used to. He's pissed off at Bush and the bunch of crooks who are running the Republican congress and he claims that 77% of conservatives are "either seriously disappointed with Republican congressional leaders or want them replaced." [Add to that 100% of non-conservatives, except, apparently Rahm Emanuel who is doing all he can as head of the DCCC to keep them in power.]

Just the way progressives are discussing whether or not to refrain from donating to the corrupt, reactionary DCCC and DSCC, Viguerie claims that grassroots right-wingers are having the same debate about their crooked, lame leaders. According to DM NEWS, he states that "54 percent of conservatives feel so abandoned by the president and the Republican Congressional leadership that they plan to reduce their contributions and grassroots work for GOP candidates this year"-- and 70% say they would support a "principled conservative challenger runnings against an established incumbent" in a primary. Sounds familiar!

Viguerie's radical righties rate Bush and the DeLay crowd D's and F's on the important conservative issues and Viguerie's assessment is even worse. "It’s reconfirmation that things are getting progressively worse in terms of how conservatives, who are the base of the party, how they view the Republican leadership, the president, his cabinet, the Republican members of the House and the Senate... They’ve been expanding government, giving mostly lip service to the traditional values. Bush has increased non-defense spending about 33 percent in the first five years of his presidency. He’s the longest serving U.S. president not to veto a single piece of legislation. It just puts paid to the lie whenever he talks about fiscal responsibility.”

And he warns that whenever the far right base gets pissed off, there are consequences for the Republicans to pay. He thinks those consequences will be felt in November. "Conservatives have a history of staying home when their Republican leaders betray them and that’s what this poll shows. That’s more frustration with the Republican leaders now than I’ve experienced in my whole political life. Senate campaign contributions are way off. I know just about every conservative organization is facing a fall-off in support. People are just discouraged and they say why support Republicans if they’re going to govern like Democrats? Karl Rove and George Bush, when they came to the White House, they seemed to have a one-word strategy for governing and re-election: bribery."

Viguerie and his nutty base are happy about two things-- very happy, in fact: Roberts and Alito. But that's it. And he says when you look at the whole social issue agenda, Bush has failed conservatives overall. Join the rest of us!