Papantonio: GOP Purity Test Echoes Berlin in 1933

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The tea partying fringe has new standards for their candidates. They are very specific about how a Republican candidate must think in order to be acceptable to their new GOP. A Republican candidate will have to meet 8 out of 10 requirements on economic and social issues in order to be considered a true Republican. Heretics need not apply. It is no less than the kind of purity test a GOP candidate might expect if they were applying for a leadership position in the Sons of the Confederacy. The last time we saw a political party demand ideological purity was Berlin 1933. It did not end well.

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[bulloney]

1. Reagan would fail the purity test named after him.

Reagan would fail at least the provisions for smaller government, gun control, defense of marriage and maybe more.

More evidence of Republicans being all flash and no substance.

[bugfragged]

2. Obama is going to win by dumb luck?

With a huge emphasis on dumb (in the case of the teabaggers).

[Yavin4]

3. He's Mocking The "Dumb" Strategy by the Republicans To Demand Purity

While at the same time, he's criticizing Obama for not being ideologically pure on Afghanistan?

[DWilliamsamh]

4. Irony.......gotta love it. (N/T)

[audas]

5. Nope -

He is simply stating what a monumental fckup Obama has been - if your still sitting in the corner clinging to hope in the face of

escalated war in Afghanistan
escalated war in Iraq (renaming soldiers freedom patrols is lower than Bush)
escalated war with Iran
escalated occupation of Palestine
escalated war in Pakistan
escalated war in Venezuela

No health care reform (worse)
No prosecution of war criminals
Escalation of restrictions of FOI on war crimes
Resigning the most heinous aspects of Patriot Act

Escalation - yes escalation - of secret priosons
Engaging private companies for assasinations and illegal acts of war (black water)

etc,etc,etc,etc,etc,etc,etc

Then there is no HOPE for you - the guy is not a democrat - he is corporacrat !

[Yavin4]

6. So, We Should Demand Ideological Purity Just Like The Republicans?

Is that what you're saying?

[LynnTheDem]

7. Of course it does. All blue-eyed blondes only; others refusing to march in lockstep

need not apply.

Including Ronald Reagan, who would fail ALL the GOP's "purity test".