Dear Conservative Friend,
On Election Day 2006, the Republican leadership drove conservatives -- and themselves -- off the cliff.
It's not because the country isn't conservative. Most of the new Democrats who won ran as conservatives, many of the Republicans who lost were RINOs, and seven out of eight marriage-protection amendments passed, mostly by wide margins.
No, Republicans lost because the Republican leadership sold conservatives out, and the MoveOn gang was ready and waiting.
Well enough is enough.
We are fed up with the excuses. We are fed up with the spending. We are fed up with the inattention to the essential conservative values that motivated us to vote in the first place. No turnout operation can substitute for an inspiring, genuine message. "The Democrats are worse" doesn't count.
We need new leaders. We need a revolution in Congress, giving voice to the vast majority of Republican back-benchers who've been doing a good job, muted by the incompetent, timid, tongue-tied Hastert crowd. We need men who will stand and fight, and fight for the right, and not back down or sell out. And we need them now, today.
But we also need a new conservative movement. We need a movement that actually gets the internet. But we also need to stop fracturing ourselves into special interests, and take a page out of MoveOn's book, using technology to unite across interest lines so we can all win together. And we need to raise up -- and empower -- a new brand of both candidates and activists from the netroots who truly believe and who will truly fight for us and win.
The left has already done this. Now it's our turn.
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