GOP defeat could benefit conservatives, says Richard Viguerie

Viguerie, a New Right founding father and king of conservative direct mail, is angry about the GOP's wayward leadership and he's calling on his troops to stand down

While a host of conservative Christian evangelical leaders were trying to energize the Republican Party's grassroots base at their Value Voters Summit a few weeks back, Richard Viguerie was sending a different message to conservatives. While he isn't advocating a GOP defeat in November, Viguerie, one of the founding fathers of the modern conservative movement, recently told progressive radio talk show host Laura Flanders, that he has "lived long enough" so that he "no longer fear[s] defeat...Many times, if not most of the times, our best success has come after defeat."