GOPers Interested in Sending a Message to Party in ’06 Are Off Base

• By David Winston
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• May 23, 2006, Midnight

To say that I was astonished by longtime conservative Richard Viguerie’s attack piece on President Bush in Sunday’s Washington Post would be putting it mildly. I understand that certain elements of the GOP’s most conservative wing have their gripes. But, however disgruntled they may be, how can Viguerie expect to be taken seriously when he advocates a strategy that would elect House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to Speaker and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to Senate Majority Leader?