Hugh Hewitt asks RW'rs to take the NRSC Pledge

[sabra]

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2007/01/25/take_the_pledge__how_victory_trumps_party

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I am not alone in this conviction, even though it may mean splitting with some friends, senators I have eagerly helped elect in the past with my time and treasure, and whom I know to be very good senators on almost all issues. At the web site TheNRSCPledge.com more than 4,000 people signed the pledge of non-support for individual senators and the NRSC in the first six hours of its operation. Hundreds of bloggers have joined on as well. I expect the numbers to grow, and the memory of the votes of next week to remain strong for years to come.

There are two parties in the country –the victory party, and everybody else.

The GOP Senate leadership has to decide very quickly that it will not indulge Senator Warner and anyone else who is still in agreement with Senator Warner after the Petraeus testimony. The good news is that General Petraeus’ testimony has had a bracing effect on many senators. They know that he spoke truth and he did so with zero interest in the political debates swirling in the Congress. Senators who might have been inclined to join Senator Warner in some gesture of concern have been informed that gestures can kill. Gestures can lose wars. And gestures most certainly will cause unbridgeable breeches with one-time core supporters.

http://truthlaidbear.com/thenrscpledge/




6940 people have signed The Pledge thus far. Will you?


If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.

[villager]

1. c'mon and keep fracturing, Repubbies ! You can do it!

I have every confidence in your "abilities" in this instance....

[oasis]

2. Grab a rifle Hewitt, you can do it.

Get your sorry ass over there and take some fire. Running you mouth about "support the troops" rings hollow when you're sitting on your ass over here.