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Are Rational Minds Starting to Prevail at RNC?
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Top Republicans have tossed a plan that would have conditioned their funding for new candidates on a so-called ideological “purity test.”
Party leaders gathered in Honolulu for the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting on Friday ultimately nixed that resolution, which would have required prospective candidates to support eight of 10 outlined conservative principles in order to obtain campaign aid.
The RNC instead opted for a version of the rule that simply “urges” party leaders to consider a candidate’s conservative bona fides before offering financial help. RNC officials stressed Friday that resolution was in no way binding, unlike the more stringent “purity test” they rejected.
14 Responses to “Are Rational Minds Starting to Prevail at RNC?”
The GOP seems to be pulling back from the brink and I applaud them for this and many similar recent actions.
No. The only “rationale” in the GOP is the bottom line. They live by it, they worship it, they idolize it.
They have placed it above God and all God's Commendments. Whatever you see, saw or will ever see from a group of people who stand united against sharing [isn't that what we're talking about] then have the audacity to say the represent a religion that embodies sharing and compassion as its foundation, you have what we refer to on the street as “mental illness”.
Mental illness doesn't spontaneously recover. Yesterday's stunt was most definitely about something other than what it seemed on the surface.
Isn't the problem the double standard of political association. If every Republican is held responsbile for a school board in Kansas wanting Creation Science taught, then having a purity test makes sense. As long as every Democratic candidate is seen as having no effect on other candidate but Republicans are seen as a group, the the Republicans have to take action,
When I see the media asking Democarts why the support candidates demanding racial reparations or open borders, then the time will exist for no litmus tests.
Ditto
and many similar recent actions.”
Yes, and also I am encouraged by O lately. He appears to be (will wait for confirmation, just as I will wait for Rep. confirmation) walking the walk. I couldn't be happier, since we are bound together for at least three more years. I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden he is pro-nuclear, willing to go and debate the Reps., making noises about helping small bus., and I am hoping, telling some Dems to be more flexible.
I, am also including in my New Year resolutions on 2/1 (less crowded) a promise to listen more closely to the other side's arguments on TMV (of course excepting FT).
P.S, was glad to hear O and company are dropping NYC venue for the 9/11 trial. Phew, thank you Bloomberg for changing your mind. (Is there something in the air?)
Yes, duck feathers.
Sorry, couldn't resist it (FT made me do it)
Have I made enough
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Are Rational Minds Starting to Prevail at RNC?
lol, nice 'are you still beating your wife' question
Please show me any Democratic State Platform that supports either of those positions, and while you're at it find a video of any federally elected democrat that supports open borders…
The only paper that I have ever seen supporting “Open Borders” is the WSJ, and the only magazine that I have ever seen supporting “Open Borders” is Reason, neither of which are beacon of liberalism or supporters of the Democratic Party…
Get your facts straight…
You may want to check out what Markos Moulitsas is saying http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/markos-mo…. Citizenship and amnesty for every illegal alien and no border security. Just because the Democrats do not use the term “Open Borders” does not mean that they do not openly support open borders. The Democrats have been very active in electing a new population for themselves instead of actually trying to lead those already in the U.S.
The all Democrat Chicago City Council support race based reparations and have for a decade. Remember when then Candidate Obama had to renounce them. http://www.finalcall.com/national/reparations5-…
If one elected Democrat support separate and unequal government, then all Democrats must support it. That is what is said every time some Republican on a school board support Creation Science. What is odd is the two groups most likely to not agree with evolution are blacks and Hispanics but since they are Democrats, no one ever criticizes them.
“Top Republicans have tossed a plan that would have conditioned their funding for new candidates on a so-called ideological 'purity test.'”
It was clumsy junk, anyway, an embarrassment, even.
What really matters currently is that we await the answer to the question, will rational minds ever begin to emerge, and maybe prevail, among the Democrats? We Hope [tm] for such needed Change [tm].
If you thought scrapping the “purity test” was of interest, …
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/us/politics/3…
I wonder how much Scott Brown's election figured into this. Did the RNC finally decide they need to encourage moderates to come inside a larger tent rather than be invited to be uncomfortably stuffed inside of a clown car.
“Scott Brown's election “
He looks Republican — as Norman Goldman has said on the radio, like one of the “WORMs” or “WORMS” — White Old Rich Male[s] [Southerners]. He sounded largely Republican (more so than Scozzafava did in Upstate New York).
But when I think about this and the election I wonder — wasn't this anti-Dem rather than pro-GOP, just as 2006 and 2008 were anti-GOP rather than pro-Dem?