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No moderates allowed? Check out the Republicans' ideological purity test: http://tinyurl.com/y8toyzb 12/19/2009 |
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GOP Purity Test? lolll. http://bit.ly/5nkaxd 12/10/2009 |
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GOP purity test? Funny - http://bit.ly/6gC84W 12/1/2009 |
A Proposed GOP List Of Principles
Ace of Spades HQ —
A Proposed GOP List Of Principles Naturally MSNBC is calling this a "Purity Test" but it strikes me that at some point a party has to stand for something and this seems like reasonable ground for agreement to me . (1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obamas stimulus bill; (2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare; (3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation; (4) We support workers right to secret ballot by ...
A Purity Test For The GOP?
TPM Election Central —
... The Republican National Committee could be on the verge of imposing a strict purity test on GOP candidates and officeholders, if a proposed resolution passes at their upcoming meeting in January: If you disagree with the party line on three or more out of a list of ten key issues, no money or official party support for you. ...
The RNC's purity test
Political Animal —
THE RNC'S PURITY TEST.... After the party's unpleasant experience in New York's 23rd, Republicans hope to exclude moderates from their upcoming slate of candidates. But the commitment leads to an awkward question: who gets to decide which candidates meet the party's ideological standards? Don't worry; some Republican National Committee members have a plan. It's called the " Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates ," and it's being circulated among RNC members in the hopes of generating party support. The litmus test was reportedly written by attorney ...
RNC Mulls Conservative Purity Test
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
First Read has obtained a resoultion being e-mailed around to Republican National Committee members for comments that proposes a conservative litmus test of sorts for candidates. If a candidate disagrees with three of the 10 items on the list, the RNC would withhold financial assistance and an endorsement from that
candidate.
A GOP Standard..
Arizona Politics for Conservatives by Sonoran Alliance —
... This list comes from MSNBC, it is supposedly a resolution being e-mailed around to Republican National Committee members as a proposed litmus test for Republican candidates. So far it goes like this, you are a Republican if you support/vote for: ...
Scheffler backs GOP Purity Test
John Deeth Blog —
... into the zone of the disturbing, but it was all meant in good clean (well, dirty) fun. Of course, the modern GOP would have no part of such a purity test, at least outside the Minneapolis airport bathroom. But a number of members of the Republican National Committee, including Iowa's own Steve Scheffler, are backing a ten question Purity test with a real cost: get more than three wrong and they cut off the $. Apparantly the lessons of New York 23 are not yet learned. Here's the test. (1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, ...
Number 11: Boil A Fatted Calf In Its Mother’s Milk
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... A group within the RNC, based off of an old Ronald Reagan quote that someone who agrees with you 8 out of 10 times is your friend, has, of course, created a list of ten things, eight of which candidates must agree with to get endorsed: ...
A GOP Litmus Test
Utah Policy - Politics, Communication & Government Relations —
NBC’s “First Read” blog reports that a proposed resolution making the rounds of members of the Republican National Committee would propose a “purity test” for GOP candidates. The resolution has 10 “conservative principles” to measure candidates by. If the measure passes, candidates who disagree with 3 out of the 10 could have an endorsement and financial support withheld by the Republican National Committee. Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill Market-based health care reform and oppose ...
What did Reagan mean?
MNpublius.com —
... What do you think Ronald Reagan meant when he said that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, and not his opponent? Because I took it as a very general philosophy which simply implied that Reagan did not want to impose an ideological purity test on his allies. So it strikes me as absurd that the Republican party is now using Reagan’s words to impose an ideological purity test on its candidates for office. ...
The Rude Pundit — ... is that, in order to re-demonstrate their dedication to all things Gipper, Republicans in Congress must send a photo of themselves pleasuring Reagan's dick to the RNC. It's no longer enough to have dead Reagan gazing down at them constantly. Now, a good GOP member must use Ronnie's member in order to maintain conservative street cred, according to a tiny group of newly-empowered right wingers. ...
The purpose of the RNC's 'purity test'
Political Animal —
THE PURPOSE OF THE RNC'S 'PURITY TEST'.... A significant faction within the Republican National Committee is reportedly pushing a purity test , which GOP candidates expecting party support would have to pass. It includes a 10-point platform, and if you're deemed inadequate on three or more issues, no party backing for you. Part of the problem, of course, is that a whole lot of Republican leaders ...
Repeat After Me....
The New Republic blogs —
Ever on the lookout for ways to shrink the party s tent still further, a few of the masterminds at the Republican National Committee are pushing a resolution to establish an ideological purity test for prospective GOP candidates . Those who fail on three or more of the following ten criteria would be deemed ineligible for RNC funding and endorsement: (1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama s stimulus bill; (2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run ...
The GOP's Ten Commandments
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Released yesterday: (1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill (2) Market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare; (3) Market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation; (4) Workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check (5) Legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants; (6) Victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop ...
REPORT: At Least 40 GOP Lawmakers Fail The ‘Purity Test’
Think Progress —
... Yesterday, Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp unveiled a resolution to deny funding of candidates who do not uphold right-wing conservative values. The resolution, termed a “purity test,” is being touted as a mechanism for actually ...
GOP Operative: Party Campaign Committees Probably Won't Honor 'Purity' Resolution
TPM Election Central —
... "The goal of the resolution is to take a position ... towards reclaiming the Republican Party's conservative bona fides," RNC member James Bopp, the author of the resolution, told NBC News. Bopp also explained that a goal of the resolution is to "demonstrate that we are open to diverse views," but also that "you have to agree with us most of the time." ...
RNC purity test may trip up several candidates
Political Animal —
RNC PURITY TEST MAY TRIP UP SEVERAL CANDIDATES.... The proposed "purity test" for GOP candidates seems to have already made an impact, before even being considered. To review, a significant faction within the Republican National Committee is reportedly pushing a test, which GOP candidates expecting party support would have to pass. It includes a 10-point platform , and if you're deemed insufficiently conservative on three or more issues, no party backing for you. My ...
A Purity Test for Democrats
Daily Kos —
... The RNC is pushing a purity test for Republicans. True to form, the modern GOP has enshrined an off-the-cuff remark of St. Ronnie the Intolerant and declared that anyone who doesn't leap over at least 8 of 10 newly-created hurdles is no longer welcome at the elephant trough. You don't have to read past the preamble to confirm that the Republicans are now completely in the grip of the most extreme faction of the Beck-heads. ...
Pro-environment Republicans left out in the cold by their own Party
BlueOregon —
... in the Oregonian, is a great example. Roberts articulately lays out the case for urgent action to halt global climate change. In fact, given the new move by the Republican National Committee to purify itself and expunge any conservationists from their ranks you realize the guts it takes for Roberts to take such a principled public stand on climate change. ...
Good News, Bad News
Booman Tribune —
... and Google. The governor released a new report determining that global warming, left unabated, would lead to higher sea levels, greater wildfire risks and less water supply over the next century, based on research compiled by the California Energy Commission. You know that story about the ant and the grasshopper? We are all grasshoppers now, my friends, when it comes to global climate change. But hey, I'm saving money this year so who cares? Right? Oh, and Ahnold? Prepare to be teabagged buddy.
RNC Wants Unification
YourCT.com —
There’s a resolution being emailed around Republican national Committee members that is called and contains the following 10 conservative principals, or call it litmus test, of what Republican candidates should support. Fail two and apparently, you’re a Democrat . Apparently that means Lindsey Graham- R South Carolina. Interesting as the brewing so called civil ware between the moderate Republicans and the, er, other Republicans, is–that the conservative principals when dissected seem sort of out of touch with mainstream America. But then, that is perhaps the point. So here ...
Confession, Ctd.
The Moderate Voice —
... • Nor are attempts to squelch divergent views alien to U.S. political parties; reference the NRC’s recent attempt at a purity test for Republican candidates. ...
Republicans Consider 'Purity' Test for Candidates
Politics Daily —
Filed under: RepublicansAs the Republican National Committee meets in Honolulu this week, one of the proposals it will consider is a so-called "purity" test for candidates.
The resolution, introduced by conservative leaders in the party, would require that Republican candidates agree on at least eight of 10 principles in order to receive backing and, more importantly, money from the GOP.
Those principles, according to MSNBC, are: ...
