Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Republican "Funding Father" Calls On Leadership To Resign

By Cernig



Via BradBlog, conservative direct mail fundraising supremo Richard Viguerie has used the platform of the Ultimate John McCain website to call for mass resignations of the GOP leadership.

Republican leaders in the White House, the Congress, and the Republican National Committee and its affiliates, along with most Republican leaders at the state level, have failed � or outright betrayed � the conservative voters who put them in their positions.



The result is that the party�s �brand� has become a negative, to an extent greater than in the Watergate era, perhaps worse than in the days of Herbert Hoover.



...The hard work of the last 50 years by millions of conservative campaign workers, donors, candidates, writers, intellectuals, and activists has been trashed. The conservative movement has been set back 10-20 years � possibly even permanently � by politicians consumed by power, including but certainly not limited to Denny Hastert, Tom DeLay, John Boehner, Roy Blunt, Mitch McConnell, Trent Lott, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, party chairman Mike Duncan, and their friends.



Some deserve more of the blame than others, but they are all part of a party Establishment that has brought the party down.



For things to change, for conservatives to be justified in giving our contributions, our volunteer efforts, our energy, and votes to the GOP, the party must clean house. The party leadership should resign immediately.



...The Democrats have firm principled beliefs. What motivates most Republican leaders? Nothing except a craving for power. What do Republicans offer voters? Nothing except �Elect us because we�re not Democrats.�





To Republican leaders, I say: You turned against the principles you once espoused � conservative principles � and, in turn, conservatives and the American people have turned against you. Things will not get better until you accept responsibility, and resign.



You have stayed too long. For the future of the Republican Party, for America and the cause of freedom: Go!

Brad has awarded Viguerie his coveted "Intellectually Honest Conservative Award."



Heh. Indeedy.



2 comments:

  1. Weren't these the same things that were said about the Democrats in the late 90s / early 2000s?

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  2. Richard Viguerie; should not talk. His twisted and warped brand on conservitism is Bush Conservitism. The Republican Party is in the fix that is in because of tight ass screwed up idelogs like him. I say this as a former Republican and now Democrat. These socalled Republicans are dishonest radicals and incompetents.

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