For some in the conservative movement, everything old is new again: It’s 1964, with Barry Goldwater taking down liberal Republican Nelson Rockfeller, or 1976, as Ronald Reagan waged a plucky fight against the more centrist Gerald Ford.
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That’s clearly the spirit in which conservative activist Richard Viguerie has launched ConservativeHQ.com. “Some conservatives feel like throwing their hands up in disgust, and taking a vacation from politics until 2008 is in the history books,” Viguerie writes in an e-mail to supporters. “But there is an alternative. … It’s time to grab your torch and pitchfork and join the conservative grassroots rebellion.”
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Viguerie and his brethren, frustrated over the ascension of John McCain, “who seems to have disdain for conservatives and conservative ideas,” wants to “take the Republican Party back from the country club/Big Business Republican Establishment — those we call RINOs (Republicans In Name Only).”
Subtle he isn’t.
