Responding to
Michael Steele -- and agreeing with Steele that a
Republican "litmus test" is a bad idea -- legendary conservative
fundraiser Richard Viguerie
wrote this:
The current Republican leadership has consistently supported
our national slide to socialism. I'm talking about Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader John
Boehner, and the leading architect of Republican endorsed
socialist-statism, former Bush White House political advisor
Karl Rove.
Viguerie's application of the "s-word" to McConnell, Boehner
and Rove is sure to
spark controversy. In his blog
post, Viguerie specifically names the Medicare
Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 and
the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Wall Street
bailout that
doomed John McCain to defeat last year.
Some would say that it is unfair to use "socialism" to describe
those GOP-supported policies. But if conservatives are going to
call Barack Obama's policies socialist, then it's hard to argue
with Viguerie's consistency in applying the "s-word" to
big-government Republicans.
