Palin Disaster in NY-23 Prompts GOP To Call For Party Purity
By Logan Murphy Tuesday Nov 24, 2009 1:00pm
Republicans on Capitol Hill are notorious for voting their party line, and since Obama's election, they have made no bones about it -- they simply want to destroy his presidency no matter the cost to the country. There is, however, a glitch in the borg. After the disaster that was NY-23 earlier this month, when the Palin/Limbaugh/Beck wing of the party took over, the GOP is once again reaching back in time and dragging Ronald Reagan out of his grave to bring the party back together:
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.
This comes on the heels of a rift in the party that was exposed in the once-obscure special election in Upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District, in which national conservative leaders, including Sarah Palin, clashed with national establishment Republicans. The so-called GOP civil war threatens to derail moderate Republican candidacies in heated 2010 Republican primaries already underway. Florida's Senate race is perhaps the best and most prominent example.
"President Ronald Reagan believed, as a result, that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, not his opponent," the resolution states.
But if a candidate disagrees with three of the above, then the group wants the RNC to withhold financial assistance and an endorsement from that candidate. Read on...
The GOP has a huge problem to face. The rabid right has taken over the party and there is virtually no wiggle room left for reasonable moderates. (You can read the full resolution (PDF) here courtesy of MSNBC) This resolution calls for the status quo on health care as well as standing against cap and trade, just to name a few. Any candidate who doesn't bow to the Palin/Beck ticket is going to be tarred, feathered and run out of town.
The resolution also calls for lower deficits, but as Jon Perr adds, smaller deficits are hardly "Reaganesque."
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Love to see the Reslug party imploding.
their taking us to the bottom with them.
that?
Seems they're in a solo race to oblivion to me.
I am not sure which is more funny: if the fact that most of the points contradict each other or the fact that Reagan would fail their "Reagan test".
Both Reagan and Bush II would fail this purity test. Pretty much tells you that the far right since Reagan has gone even further right. They've gone so far they have fallen of the edge
Unlike Reagan though, the GOP admitted Bush II tanked the economy to an extent (like just his dad). This somehow made them not "real conservatives" even though they pulled all the same nonsense.
Though in fairness, there was one noteworthy difference between Bush I and the others. At least Bush I was semi-loyal to his henchbeasts.
I know, right?
these people prove they're capacity for ignorance knows no limits.
then they think that repeating the mistake is the best way to fix it! :|
..look at w and his tax cuts to "stimulate the economy". Same tax cuts that reagan issued and then w got the same results-donuts!
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Their parents forgot to tell 'em that when you lay with dogs, you're bound to get fleas.
Democracy is impossible when you only have two political parties, and one of them despises democracy and will do everything in it's power to destroy American democracy.
...it's about polarizing purity tests and the inability to compromise.
Psst, hey Republicans. Your party is in the crapper right now and about all you have left are the freaking wingers. Are you sure you want to pare it down more by demanding those in your party who want to run for office must prove they are freaking wingers too? Plants may grow larger if you trim them down a bit but I don't think it works the same way for political parties. Your tent is already a pup tent, do you want to keep making it smaller until you can camp under a wash cloth?
pat,
The tent looks huge once you've chased everyone out, eh?
And it also looks flat.
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What is left to consume once the snake has eaten it's tail?
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It's amazing to sit back and witness the further damage that Beck, Palin, Bachmann, Hannity, Dobbs, etc. have done to this all white, racist, old, uneducated, sorry ass collection of violent fringe fucks.
bullying.
..the Democratic Party for the break-up and/or dissolution of the gop. I can almost hear the whining now.
There it is, over there! WHA-what happened to my party?
It'll be Obama's fault and of course the "liberal media" They are victims I tell ya.
Popcorn and peanuts - roll one and pass it around!
The depth to which the GOP has sunk is historic.
There must be at least one sane republican out there who in private cusses this bullshit that's going on in his or her party. Of course they can't talk about how they feel in public else they have to bow before Rush.
I've always thought (for the most part) the GOP was crazy but not as crazy as they have been. Seems like they are on course for much worse. Only about 20% even claimed to be republican - I wonder if that can go any lower?
This is why these people completely despise Obama. The President's election has given Progressives a worldwide social high ground that the GOP is incapable of honestly obtaining. The only thing they can do now is try to destroy Obama.
Then once they have destroyed Obama they want to elect Palin. Talk about digging your own grave.
..I'd love to see just how palin would've handled two wars, the economic crisis, any natural disaster, etc. However, she would never really be the President; there would always be some handler with his hand..well, never you mind where that hand goes..some handler telling her what to say, what to do.
I don't believe her capable of making decisions except when its time to quit whatever it is she's doing.
If you all understand so clearly what is going on in the GOP, and just how badly damged the GOP is with the general public, then you should easily understand why the DEMOCRATS will make gains in the coming elections.
Incumbent Dems have more to fear from primary challenges than they do from GOP opponents in the general election.
The country is moving left. It just doesn't know that it is.
Black voters = Hell no, no chance in foreseeable future.
Latino voters = Fuck you GOP and BTW, kiss SCJ Sotomayor's ass.
Gay voters = Bwahahahahahahahaha!!
Progressive educated white voters = come back in a generation.
This Party is a turkey a day after Thanksgiving.
Dried up skin and bones sounds about right.
..lou dobbs mulling run for President in 2012.
Another sure sign of the sarapocalypse!
And he's counting on the Hispanic and Latino vote.
..i'd be insan..and I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for those Hispanic and Latino districts to vote for me either.
..reagan wouldn't have made the cut!
Reagan economics is capitalism on steroids.
Reagan hastened the self-destruction of the wealth of a nation called America.
And to think the middle class lined up to vote for him. whoops.
Reagan hated the middle class and unions. He was a GE mouthpiece.
He got his wish as the middle class is on a steep decline
The former middle class is much worst off then they realize as what keeps this country afloat is borrowed and printed money.
When that borrowed money runs out and the printed money creates run away inflation the middle class will drop like a rock to lower class status. Reagan’s dream will come true.
Ignorance still prevails on a mass level, as the tea baggers are nothing more than ignorant pawns of the corp have mores.
That borrowed money comes from a communist country. Whoops.
And Reagan did not bring down the Berlin wall what brought down that wall were many factors. One: communism was self-destructing all on its own as capitalism is doing now in America. Two: gorby knew communism was a failure and did not fight to keep Russia’s imperialism afloat. Three: the popes visit to Poland.
Americans can learn a lot from Russia’s failures in imperialism and their war with Afghanistan but they won’t after all we Americans are better than the Russians in everything. Why we are better than the whole world in everything.
Gorby did not want American style capitalism but German style social democracy. The folks threw him out and installed a pure form of capitalism. It failed quickly as it created a few billionaires and no middle class. Whoops.
Even as our country is self-destructing we live in denial and just blame everyone around us. Other than that everything is fine in America.
Look closely at the repub’s ego and you will find a very low level of soul development but a high level of egotism. A Darwinian survival of the fittest mode of being in the world and they claim to be more religious and self-righteous than others. Whoops.
Soul development is far different than intellectual aptitude.
Anyone that has some level of understanding of the relative phenomenal world as it applies to systems can see that both communism and capitalism must self destruct as they are both based in ignorance of reality of universal laws and principles. The religious and the atheists have little understanding of either. I.e. two sides of the same coin.
Few will understand my words very few.
Can you imagine Democrats coming up with their own litmus test for their candidates. Talk about herding cats. That would look like a piece of cake next to coming up with that list.
I wish they would at least stick to the platform.
But alas, they never really do.
I actually do not have an issue with the litmus test for funding. The Blue Dogs and others can do as they please, however at the same time, the DNC does not need to be helping them openly sabotage the administration.
"Incumbent Dems have more to fear from primary challenges than they do from GOP opponents in the general election."
As it should be.
I'm pretty lucky here in the 1st dist. NM. We dumped Heather Wilson and Pete Domenici for Heinrich and Udall. Udall is a gun nut but Heinrich is a good progressive so far.
I'd say the Democratic party is no longer drifting left. It is most definitely leaving a wake! Yee-haw!
Thank you Rush, Beck, FOX, and everyone else who made this not only possible, but also necessary.
Hell that wake is so good we might be able to water ski on it.
I wish it was the other kind of wake . . .
For the GOP in general
But the RNC primaries should be entertaining as hell!
With all the asshats climbing all over themselves for Mommy Palin's approval.
Ah, the family scene. You must get daddy Rush's approval along with Mommy Palin's. If you get that far then go for brother Beck's approval. You do all that and you're good as gold (fool's gold)
I wonder who the "pure repub" was that came up with this caca.
..and then they'll throw him under the bus when there's no more gop.
Now you know the REAL reason for Michael Steele being named head of the RNC.
He'll be made the scapegoat when the election losses ocntinue, which will play beautifully with the racist wing of the Party, pulling the Party even more to the right...until it finally topples over the cliff completely.
Maybe the Macaca guy?
(I can't remember his name)
Or Ralph Reed?
Pat Robertson?
Dick Armey?
Darth Cheney?
I would pick Dick Armey. He's all about the tea bagging parties and all.
I had one republican claim that the social conservative/religious side of the republican party were actually closeted Democrats and Indepedents and that's why his party is failing.
lol
Drat! We have been found out.
I love it when a plan comes together.
...by trying to galvanize the frightened, angry white voters(teabaggers, birthers, bibles and guns, etc.) thinking that this country had enough racists to take back Obama's momentum.
A failed strategy to say the least.
If you are for peace, forgiveness, and helping those who can't help themselves, you can't be in the Republican Party?
I didn't know Jesus was a Democrat.
Jesus was the original liberal/progressive/socialist/community organizer . . .
Wait a minute - now I have a new insight on some of their fears - Obama can't be Jesus so he must be the anti-Christ.
Jesusland - where everyday is the end of days!
:)
Don't you remember during the presidential campaign some of these crack pots were saying that Obama was indeed the anti-Christ?
The farging iceholes!
Desperation does strange things to sick minds.
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
Voltaire
After conceding, then unconceding, then conceding, then unconceding, Hoffman now concedes.
How can anybody take them seriously?
This is cracking me up!
Is there a rule about how many times one can concede and then unconcede? He must have reached his limit by now. It would be interesting to find out who is advising him on this.
Is anyone besides myself concerned that approximately 20% of the citizenry of this country is clinically insane.
Yes, I am and have been for a while now. Plus they are reproducing others just like them every day.
Forget about abortion, we need to make it where people pass a test to make babies. Something like a drivers test. Simple things like civics and math.
(maybe I'm being too mean)
I don't think you are being mean. I have always believed that before you take on the most important responsibility of your life you should have to prove you are qualified for that responsibility.
I see too many poor excuses for parents WAY too often.
ARGH!
I know I would be a bad parent so I don't have kids. Problem solved for me.
Olbermann on Countdown last night demonstrated this. Reagan would only pass on 4 of the 10 points. He also listed a number of other republicans who would fail as well.
I don't see "paranoid" on the purity test. I guess it's just assumed.
The current republican answer to the reality that they've been humiliated in the last two national election cycles seems to be, "We're losing elections because this gosh darned tent has gotten too BIG!"
The truly ironic thing is, when you look at their "Reagan Party Purity" litmus test, the ghost of Ronald Reagan himself would fail to achieve their passing score of 80...he'd have trouble getting a 60!
Short of Pat Buchannan, Sean Hannity and Gordon Liddy, the whack-a-doodle teabaggers now seek to kick everyone else out of the tent!
Republicans continue to suck the Second Worst President Ever's dick. Reagan was only surpassed by the Idiot Bastard George W. Bush who is worse.
From the October Surprise to 1982 peak US unemployment was at 25% and even Wall Street sputtered for eight long trickle down years with interest rates at 15%. I was there, so don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
The jelly bean who rode the coattails of Union votes smashed the Air Traffic Controllers after he promised no reprisal for striking. I was there, so don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Then the draft dodging, war film making bitch left 241 dead Marines in Lebanon. An act of pure treason and cowardice. I was there, so don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Then the asshole who cozied up to the Religious Right for votes never expecting there to be any sort of pay back was taken aback to see Washington flooded by Jesus-o-Freak wack jobs with hands outstretched. Further, the dildo allowed his goofy old lady to open up the White House to a host of charlatans, rogues and miscreants. I was there, so don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Then the anti-communist set his sights on Central America murdering 1000's including, nuns. I was there, so don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Aids/ HIV, student loan defaults, racism, anti-feminism... The Reagan Legacy. They should dig the prick up, prop him in the corner and seek his unwavering guidance straight to hell.
A thing of great beauty.
Ignorant, misinformed Conservative bastards will honor Limbaugh, Beck and Palin fifty years from now in the same, fucked up revised way.
I don't think the Democrats will lose the House or the Senate next year. The looney toons are running the repug party. I really hope they take Crist out in the Florida Senate primary next year.
(YouTube) MSNBC: Ronald Reagan Fails the GOP's "Purity Test"
(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion
Why do Republican's oppose government funding of abortion in the Health Care plan when private health care plans already fund abortion coverage with my premium $$'s?
It would seem to me that the Senate Republican's could effectively end access to abortion (or so the liberal democrats claim)by supporting the provisions of the Stupak Amendment.
What would the Democrats do then? The House Bill has already passed the House, the Repub Senators agree to pass it as it comes from the House and then the liberal Senate Dems become the obstructionists, while Nelson, Lieberman, Landreui and Lincoln all support the House version.
didn't this criminal asshole cause enough damage when he was president? do we really need his zombie-ass drumming up new support for the Anti-America GOP party?
Let Reagan rest so the world can have peace.
This insanity could represent an opportunity for the Democrats to turn around Senators Snowe and Collins. Maine voters support the public option by a 57-37 margin. And this purity test just reinforces rumors that they will face right-wing primary opponents in their next re-election campaigns and raise the likelihood that these challengers will be backed by their national party.
Under those circumstances, it seems like a concerted effort by the Democratic Party leadership could convince them to switch parties and support cloture on health care reform. If that worked, party leaders would only need to convince Lincoln and Landrieu then they can kick Lieberman out of his chairman's seat and ignore Nelson.
Yes, this is probably way too optimistic. Despite the fact that their party will almost certainly betray them in the near future, I don't expect Snowe and Lincoln to turn against their party and I certainly don't expect the Democratic leadership to play hardball with their own holdouts.
Then they
Republican = Nazi=Fascist=Socialist=Fear=Hate=Anti American party now prove your Not.
From the MEM we use to have a MSM now we cal them MEM Main Entertainment Media, home of the ANTI AMERICAN FOX NOISE NIT WIT network.
So now I call out you Anti American racist Nazi teabaggers prove you are American in a Complete sentence and NO sound Byte.
The Resolution will only be a half measure until they add a dictum that all candidates must anoint themselves with a mixture of bodily excretions from Sarah, Rush, Glenn and Sean.
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