Conservatives Set 'Day Without a GOP'

Since U.S. voters elected Barack Obama last month while also sending dozens of conservative congressmen and senators packing, conservative leaders have appeared on Fox News, raved about Sarah Palin and ranted on talk radio.

On Wednesday, they were asked to do something different: nothing at all.

Modeled loosely after the 2006 immigration rights demonstrations that the GOP widely ridiculed at the time, "Day Without a GOP" was scheduled for Wednesday and billed as "a chance for those Obama-loving socialists to realize who really runs this country."

Organizers said that they didn't expect all of the McCain/Palin supporters to "call in conservative", but they were hoping for a better response.

Earlier, several evangelical conservatives had said that they had planned to take the day off "if it is God's will."

 

"It's organic, it's visceral, it's grass roots and net roots," said Sean Hannity, of Fox News. "People are reacting in a very natural way to having their hard-earned money taken away by a socialist president."

Some conservatives expressed their confusion about what it meant to be part of the GOP. Roger Davies of Atlanta, Georgia said, "Being a Republican used to mean less government, lower taxes and staying the hell out of people's lives. Now it means big government, irresponsible wars, huge debts, rampant environmental destruction, dictation of morality, and, apparently, hot gay sex. Lots of hot gay sex."

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