Texas pick ‘em: Our favorite strident-voiced REAL conservative Richard Viguerie has a poll running on his site that is kind of fun in a perverse way. He lists 31 people or reasons why the Republican Party got beaten worse than Keith Moon’s snare drum in last fall’s elections and invites us to choose 10 of them.
Of course, you have to provide a name and party affiliation “to prevent fraud,” and you can’t vote for more than 10 (I tried), but it’s still interesting to be forced to make some hard choices when all you really feel like doing is pushing every button. Viguerie gives the results of how those identifying themselves as Republicans voted and how the total vote count came out with Dems, independents and others included.
According to Viguerie, the number-one reason for blame chosen by 76 percent of the Repugs was “Conservative leaders who kept silent when the GOP became the party of Big Government,” which coincidentally is one of Richard’s obsessions. Second was “Illegal corruption, such as Mark Foley, Robert Ney, and Jack Abramoff” at 64 percent, followed by George W. Bush at 57 percent.
Those percentages and rankings were about the same when all results were lumped together, but that makes sense, since Republicans constituted 75 percent of the poll pool, which is a testament to all the liberals who don’t go to Viguerie’s site: 76 percent for silent conservative leaders, 64 percent for illegal corruption and 63 percent for Bush.
Viguerie plans to release his “findings” to the MSM on Monday, provided he can get anybody’s attention besides the guy who writes the column on crackpots. So there is still time to get your votes in and skew the findings. If we all vote as Dems or independents, we can perhaps help George Bush win again by being named the number-one reason why Repugs lost the House and Senate.
Go here to vote.
That was fun. I just voted and the overall results (not Republican) show Bush is doing better. He’s up to 64% of the blame. And even among Republicans, his total has climbed to 56%.
Te great thing about it is that Viguerie wants his “agenda items” to win because that vindicates him. I still can’t imagine that many people buying into the BIG GOVT argument as the reason the Repugs lost. It’s a non sequitur.
[…] Last Friday, I posted an article about a poll being conducted by Richard Viguerie, poster boy for the Goldwater school of conservatism, and ever so wisely predicted that he would rig the poll to support his far-right platform. See, Viguerie and his cronies feel betrayed and marginalized by the Bush neocons, so what better way to highlight that fact than to mount a rigged poll? Viguerie got what he was looking for, despite the noble efforts of me and Trish to skew the results toward sanity. […]