Latest Richard A. Viguerie Stories
MANASSAS, Va., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, wrote a tribute to Howard Phillips, a key founder of the modern day conservative movement, who recently died. Viguerie's article, which is posted on his ConservativeHQ.com website, states in part: "During the 1970s and 1980s, Howard Phillips was one of a small group of conservative leaders who set out to change the Republican Party. They did and, in the process, helped...
MANASSAS, Va., Feb. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ConservativeHQ.com Chairman Richard A. Viguerie announced that he is sponsoring "The Liberty Prize," a contest for grassroots conservatives to submit a plan or ideas to take over the Republican Party, win the November 2016 elections, and govern America by 2017. Viguerie said the most important political battle in America is not between Republicans and Democrats or between conservatives and liberals. "It is the battle for...
Failed Republican Leadership Should Resign MANASSAS, Va., Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ConservativeHQ.com Chairman Richard A. Viguerie made the following statement today at a press conference held at the National Press Club. "Out of last night's disaster comes some good news - conservatives are saying 'Never again' are we going to nominate a big government establishment Republican for President. "What's more, we won't have to - conservatives now have a deep bench of...
MANASSAS, Va., Sept. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, issued the following statement regarding Jesse Benton's new role in the 2014 re-election campaign of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY): "Could there be two more polar opposites in Republican politics than Congressman Ron Paul and Senator Mitch McConnell? "Senator McConnell is the ultimate Washington insider. He began his political career as an intern on Capitol Hill and, for...
MANASSAS, Va., Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, issued the following statement regarding possible Republican vice presidential candidates: "There is growing unease among conservatives that the 'short list' of vice presidential candidates Mitt Romney has under consideration has too many establishment-type Republicans and few, if any, principled small government constitutional conservatives. "Conservatives want Governor...
MANASSAS, Va., July 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, issued the following statement in reaction to news reports that Condoleeza Rice is near the top of the list of Mitt Romney's potential running mates: "It appears presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney just doesn't get it--conservatives and many independents are not going to vote for the third term of George W. Bush. "Yet that seems to be exactly where Romney...
MANASSAS, Va., June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, issued the following statement concerning the political implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Obamacare: "The 2010 Tea Party wave election was all about the average American's anger over the individual mandate and the oppressive big government that it represents. The Supreme Court's narrow decision upholding the individual mandate has raised that anger to...
MANASSAS, Va., June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Obamacare: "The 2010 Tea Party wave election was all about the repeal of Obamacare and the individual mandate. If millions of Americans were enraged by the passage of Obamacare before the Supreme Court decision upholding the individual mandate was announced, their outrage will reach revolutionary...
"This is not a partisan issue, but an issue of civil liberties that conservatives, liberals, Tea Partiers, Democrats, and Republicans should be able to agree on." MANASSAS, Va., June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ConservativeHQ.com Chairman Richard A. Viguerie issued the following statement calling on civil libertarians on the right and the left to demand that Congress rein-in the use of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles for domestic surveillance: "The Big Brother...
MANASSAS, Va., June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, has sent the following e-mail message to conservative activists in Virginia and throughout the nation to ask them to join him in a "voter bomb" for Jamie Radtke for U.S. Senator from Virginia in the June 12 Republican Primary: Dear fellow conservative, I'm writing to ask that you join me in this "voter bomb" for Mrs. Jamie Radtke, the principled small-government,...
