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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 and 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;
True. I view it as a start. First you have to acknowledge the problem. They're 12 stepping their way back to coherance as a party.I'm underwhelmed.
Not that the GOP has finally put some positions forward, but that they're kind of ambiguous and the "goals" are pretty unambitious.
The latest trend in the Republican Party is an effort to weed out moderates -- witness New York Republicans' successful effort to oust their own candidate in an upstate House race, in preference for an independent conservative.
But a new GOP "purity test" named for Ronald Reagan moves the line even farther to the right, and a liberal website has found that the test -- if used in the past -- would have screened out President Ronald Reagan and President George W. Bush as viable conservatives.
Trouble is, the measure would likely have screened out President Ronald Reagan, under whose watch the US deficit ballooned. The federal deficit mushroomed from 2.7 percent of gross domestic product in 1980, to 6 percent in 1983.
Reagan also agreed to a $165 billion bailout of Social Security, in contradiction of conservative orthodoxy (though he did drastically reduce the top income tax brackets for Americans).
The Gipper also raised the gasoline tax in 1983.
Yes, The RNC wouldn't accept Ronald Reagan. Love it.As you may have heard here and there, Ronald Reagan couldn't qualify for eight out of ten.
As you may have heard here and there, Ronald Reagan couldn't qualify for eight out of ten.
If you want to be a successful national party in a country as large and diverse as the U.S., you have to be prepared to welcome everyone who agrees with you more often than they agree with the other guys,
even if that score is 51 to 49.
The rightwing's 80-20 formula is ludicrous.
If you want to be a successful national party in a country as large and diverse as the U.S., you have to be prepared to welcome everyone who agrees with you more often than they agree with the other guys,
even if that score is 51 to 49.
The rightwing's 80-20 formula is ludicrous.
We don't really need you guys anymore and I predict that the socialist thinking in this country will be squashed in a few years.
As you may have heard here and there, Ronald Reagan couldn't qualify for eight out of ten.
Thats because most of those issues weren't around in 1980s...
Its like comparing Obama to Lincoln or FDR despite the fact that Lincoln wasn't a communist and FDR didn't pass a trillion dollar deficit.
If you want to be a successful national party in a country as large and diverse as the U.S., you have to be prepared to welcome everyone who agrees with you more often than they agree with the other guys,
even if that score is 51 to 49.
The rightwing's 80-20 formula is ludicrous.
We don't really need you guys anymore and I predict that the socialist thinking in this country will be squashed in a few years.
Republicans considering ideological purity test for candidates - Yahoo! News
Good to see the Republican party attempting to create a unified identity. I don't agree with everything on the list, but 8 out of 10.....
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 and 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;
