Our favorite arch-conservative Richard Viguerie has his panties all in a twist over the Republican Party’s presidential candidate. He’s got such a hard-on for John McCain and other fake conservatives that he started a blog called Ultimate John McCain. As if he didn’t already have enough platforms from which to eulogize the passing of the Pillars of Conservatism: Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley.

Republicans are doomed to wander in the political wilderness until this generation of weak-kneed, no-vision, inarticulate, afraid-of-the-liberal
-media politicians are replaced.

Viguerie does not mince words when opening a can of WhupAss on the Repugs:

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.

When he’s right, I have to agree with the old right-winger:

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.

Viguerie builds to a crescendo of colorful hyperbole before invoking the Three Horsemen of Conservatism:

Republicans are doomed to wander in the political wilderness until this generation of weak-kneed, no-vision, inarticulate, afraid-of-the-liberal-media politicians are replaced mostly with principled conservatives in the mold of Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.

Hey Richard, you left out greedy, larcenous, adulterous, bibulous, fatuous and generally morally bereft.

Viguerie didn’t get around to bashing John McCain in this post. He had bigger fish to rail at, namely calling for all Republican office holders at all levels of government to step down and allow for the next generation of REAL conservatives to step up.

Of the three comments on the post, my favorite was this excerpt:

McStain is closer to “The Manchurian Candidate” than anything else. There is no way I’m voting for him or the two pods from the Dumbcrat side. My choice was Ron paul. (sic)

With bright lights like that on his side, Richard Viguerie sure has his work cut out for him.