A group of conservatives on the Republic National Committee are circulating a document they call a RNC Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates and what others are calling a "purity test."
The idea that Republican candidates would support at least eight out of the ten public policy positions expressed in the "RNC Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates" or "purity test" or risk being denied campaign funding and support from the Republican National Committee
Democrats, who have seen a steady slippage of independents from their party, have been quick to try to use the "purity test" to claim that the Republican Party is hostile to independents and centrists. The problem is that the policy positions expressed in the document are not exactly out of the mainstream.
They are:
"(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 healthcare;
"(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
"(4) We support workers' right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
"(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
"(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
"(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
"(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
"(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing, denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
"(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership; and be further."
The idea that Republican candidates would support at least eight out of the ten public policy positions expressed in the "RNC Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates" or "purity test" or risk being denied campaign funding and support from the Republican National Committee
Democrats, who have seen a steady slippage of independents from their party, have been quick to try to use the "purity test" to claim that the Republican Party is hostile to independents and centrists. The problem is that the policy positions expressed in the document are not exactly out of the mainstream.
They are:
"(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 healthcare;
"(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
"(4) We support workers' right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
"(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
"(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
"(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
"(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
"(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing, denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
"(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership; and be further."
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Brad C
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12/17/2009
The republicans are just digging themselves in a hole with this...
Mike Carpenter
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12/01/2009
"(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama's 'stimulus' bill;
Lie and Straw Man. Reagan and Bush each tripled the national debt. Bush's Iraq war based entirely on lies is costing $3T. Phil Graham wrote the legislation that enabled the subprime swindle. If McCain were President, Graham would be Secretary of the Treasury and we would be into a Depression that would last 10 years.
"(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;
Straw Man. No Bill before the Senate is government-run health care. Not even Medicare for all, HB 676, is government run health care. Health care would be private. The public option is just a government based insurance insurance plan.
"(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
Cap and Trade is market based. "Voluntary" programs are BS; that's what has always existed and resulted in the polluting
tom s
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11/24/2009
Seriously, can the Republican Party be anymore full of it?
I guess their new strategy is to conveniently have everyone forget what they did in practice and still market the ideals that they suckered people with into granting them power the last go around.
They are like a cheating husband who had his way with any woman he that could charm the panties off of when he was married and now that he got kicked out of the house, he swears he won't do it again. Sorry, but past performance is the most accurate predictor of future behavior. They financially raped, pillaged and screwed over 90% of the workers in this country. Now they are trying to sell themselves as friends to those very same people.
They did not cut a dime in taxes. Every "tax cut" they enacted was paid for by tacking it on to the deficit which will have to be paid back with, you guessed it, more taxes.
They are not "for" small government if you measure the size of government by spending. Bush 2.0 signed
Republicans support smaller national debt ?? Ha ha, is that why they spent $125 billion a year on the bogus Iraq war ?
D. Morgan
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11/24/2009
This article does a great job of trying to 'spin' the already conveniently worded document into being something less appalling than it is. The only thing worse than the exclusionary policies of the republican party are the spreaders of propaganda who try and contort the truth.
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