For months now, possibly years, the GOP and the RNC have been moving more and more to the extreme Right….,in 1994 the neocons got to take over Washington and the Congress and it has continued with GW and on to the present…..
The radical right has declared a war on the middle and the liberals of the party…..calling them RINOs, Republicans In Name Only, and in doing so they are purging as many of these people as possible….looking for a more “pure” conservative…..very few of the GOP have come to the defense of the liberals of the Party….the silence is an indication of the fear within the Party….FEAR?…you mean the GOP is playing the “fear card” on itself?….you betcha (he said with a wink)…..
The radical Right jumped into the election in NY-23 and backed a candidate, not the GOP candidate, but rather one that was on the Far Right……Now they are doing the same thing with Crist in Florida, these neocons are backing a far right candidate Rubio…is this the future of GOP politics?…..
Good question and there is an even better answer……..YES IT IS!
Why would I say that? The RNC has issued a memo with a “purity” test enclosed and it reads like this:
(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 health care;
(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.
There you have it…if you want the support of the RNC…you must have eight of the 10 on the checklist…..Jeez! This is all too familiar….the Left did it back in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s until they were NOT even close in the elections even though they had some good ideas….they marginalized themselves out of relevance……
With members fleeing the GOP like rats from a sinking ship…is this a way to increase and strengthen the Party? Sounds like wishful thinking….the GOP is steering the ship of conservatism into the rocks……..
Yes, we’ve both seen it all before. I would predict the formation soon of a new “centre party” called something like Democratic Republican Party – the DRP – it has a good ring to it, don’t you think?
The really scary thing is that, just as with the Democrats and even socialism, I can comfortably tick 8 – well just – of those boxes and yet I abhor what they are and are about.
The real trick, of course, is reading between the lines, but that’s not so easy for even educated people to do, so some may be swayed.
The one GOOD thing that will come from their dash to the right is that they will daily reduce their support down to the core right-wing nutjobs that are out there.
The WORST thing is that the same process will (without the formation of such a centerist party) will hugely increase the power base of the Democrats and you may well see a shift to the left of that party.
Roll on the DRP – their time is NOW!
Morning my friend….I believe it was Thomas Jefferson that formed the DRP in the US back in its early days and it became the Dem Party later….I think with Jackson or one of those yo-yos…….
I can tick ONE…and two others I can agree with in a minor way….so if I ever run for office I cannot be a Repub….oh well…..I am shattered now….lol
The sad part is that most Americans are a ONE issue voter…that is why there are so many that call themselves independents….
Yeah. I know what you mean. Whilst I, on the face of it could tick more boxes than you, the minute you start to interpret it to reveal what the MEAN rather than what they say, I agree, the count drops to somwhere close to unity.
Maybe it’s time to employ a clairvoyant and see if Jefferson’s still around out there somewhere 😆
The re-birth of the DRP (or even the RDP, I suppose, at a push, but a DRP would be better) would I think be welcomed by much of moderate America, especially if Obama’s term turns out the way I think it will.
Jefferson is alive and he lives in the ego of most Repubs….
BTW, number 1 makes me chuckle every time they use it….look at all Repub admins since Reagan……not small government….not budget friendly…….and they did very little to lower taxes, with the exception of the wealthy…..so they ALL violate #1…
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