Leaders Meet With or Without Republicans

Leaders Meet, Plan to Battle Obama’s Agenda – With or Without Republicans
Thursday, November 06, 2008
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief




L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center, the parent organization of CNSNews.com(CNSNews.com) - A group of about 20 conservative leaders met in the Virginia countryside Thursday to begin planning the fight against the liberal agenda of President-elect Barack Obama – with or without the Republican Party.

The meeting was seen as the first in a series of gatherings that conservative leaders will be holding in the coming weeks to plan the development of new organizations, new fundraising efforts and new strategies to deal with what they expect to be a series of momentous battles over significant issues of public policy.

The leaders said they foresee battling Obama and the Democratic Congress – and most likely moderate Republicans, too – over issues including taxes, sanctity of life, marriage, judicial nominations, secret ballots for union organizing and the Fairness Doctrine, which they see as a threat to freedom of speech on the radio.

The group included L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center, the parent organization of CNSNews.com; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council; Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform; Al Regnery, publisher of the American Spectator; longtime conservative activist Richard Viguerie and conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway.

There was a consensus among the group that conservative ideas and principles had not been defeated in Tuesday’s election, but a Republican Party that walked away from these principles had been defeated.

“This was a campaign between the moderate wing of the Republican Party and the Democrats,” said Bozell.

“Conservatism did not lose – big government Republicanism lost,” said Viguerie.

The participants generally agreed that new national conservative political leaders will emerge from the major public-policy battles that they anticipate.

Conway said conservatives will be looking for the candidates and elected officials who fit the movement’s “job description” – meaning that they are with the movement on the core issues at stake in these battles and are in the thick of the action when those battles begin.







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shelbyradio at 04:14 AM - November 07, 2008
I think its great that conservatives meet to discuss the future of the movement. You can count on me and Shelby Radio to continue this effort at grassroots level. Shelby Radio is an internet only radio station in Shelby, North Carolina. I am ashamed of my state for throwing their votes to the Democrat Party. When I first registered to vote I was in the U.S.Army in the 1960s When Ronald Regan came along, I realized that I was in the wrong party and switched to the Republican Party. With this election, I was beginning to wonder if the Republican Party had left me as well. After reading this article, I can say that it was not the party as a whole who left me. Only those moderates who gave the election away to the Democrats. Again, you can count on me to continue to talk about, promote and push the conservative principles and ideals at grassroots level. Van "Austin" Hoyle http//www.shelbyncradio.com

Warthog at 11:36 PM - November 06, 2008
Well,that sounds really good, but a little late in the game. Where were these people when the Republican primaries started and their ideas might have had a beneficial effect. So instead of being distracted by relatively petty religious concerns; i.e., "Oh, we don't want Romney, he's a Mormon!" or "Huckabee's TOO evangelical!", etc, we ended up with the liberal McCain. Unbelievable! Articles and blogs that are mainly read by conservatives anyway don't influence the everyday sheep in this country. I believe a Mormon would be preferable by far than someone who is a Marxist/socialist and plans to change this country and the world (for the worse)!

Peted at 10:02 PM - November 06, 2008
The Republican party and the Democrat party are both infested with Liberals and are incapable of living up to the Conservative ideals. It is time to craft a new Conservative party that will attract people that will defend the constitution, traditional family values, individual rights, and limited government.

Hanna at 09:18 PM - November 06, 2008
This sounds like a good thing. I would like to ask what your position is on immigration. And I don't mean to offend anyone, but I have to ask. Are you people doing this for yourselfs, your interests and careers or for America and her people?


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