Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause. This item is unavailable.Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause

An essential training manual for all conservatives, Conservatives Betrayed challenges the political right to implement a nationwide conservative agenda and serves as a warning to the Republican Party to fall in line if it hopes to remain in power.

Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of American Target Advertising Inc, has been called "the funding father of the conservative movement" for his role in forming dozens of conservative organizations. He transformed American politics in the 1960s and ’70s by pioneering the use of direct mail fundraising in the political and ideological spheres. Previously, liberals had a monopoly on the news that Americans received. For decades, conservatives views, issues, causes, candidates, and organizations could not get through the liberal media gatekeeper. Viguerie used computerized direct mail to build the conservative movement, which then elected Ronald Reagan as the first conservative president of the modern era. His effort was so important that GEORGE Magazine listed it among their 100 Defining Moments of the 20th century.

In 1979, Time magazine named him one of 50 future leaders of America, and In 1981, People magazine named him one of the 25 most intriguing people of the year. In December 1999, Lee Edwards in a Washington Times column listed Richard Viguerie as one of 13 "Conservatives of the Century." The Washington Post has called him "the conservatives’ Voice of America." He has been credited with "making it all possible" for conservatives: "multi-million dollar budgets, effective political action, think tanks, publications, and -- most telling – significant numbers of members of the U.S. House and Senate, state legislatures and other levels of elected officials" (The AFL-CIO News).

Viguerie founded Conservative Digest magazine in 1975 and served as its publisher for ten years. He has written four books, including "America’s Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power" (Bonus Books 2004). He and his wife reside in the Washington D.C. area.