Conservatives Dilute ‘Purity’ Test for Candidates

[SecularMotion]

Source: NY Times

Facing strong opposition from moderate Republican leaders, a group of conservative Republicans are proposing a watered-down alternative to a resolution that would have required party candidates to agree to at least eight of 10 positions in order to win support from the Republican National Committee.

The new resolution says that the chairman of the Republican National Committee is “empowered to take into account a candidate’s faithfulness to the Republican Party’s conservative principles and public policies” in determining whether a candidate should receive financial support from the party. In this new resolution, candidates would be automatically barred from receiving support from the Republican National Committee if he or she endorses a Democratic candidate for office in 2010 or for president in 2012.

Read more: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/conservatives-dilute-purity-test-for-candidates/?hp

[47of74]

1. Are they perhaps worried?

Worried that some Republicans might endorse a Democrat over a Teabagger?

[rurallib]

Who or what are "moderate republican leaders?" Do they exist?

Lieberman? Nelson? Landreau?
If these people exist they are hiding exceptionally well.

[rox63]

5. The only one I can think of is Olympia Snowe

And I think she's come close to jumping ship (from the GOP) a few times.

[sakabatou]

2. Well, when Reagan would fail the purity test, they had to dilute it.

[FarLeftFist]

3. This whole conservative purity test shit is starting to sound alot like Nazi Germany

Why are these people so worried about people making up their own mind. Why are they so convinced conservative policies would be good for the country, haven't they learned from the last 8 yrs of the "conservative revolution" that it fails. Conservatism is going to make a large demographic of the country unhappy. Can you say class warfare.

[CatholicEdHead]

7. Purity tests of any type are crap

[brooklynite]

4. So, they're placing responsiblity for adherence to Conservative Principles in the hands of...

Michael Steele?



Maybe they want to think through that some more?

[Wizard777]

6. Tie boulders to them and toss them in a lake. If they float they're liberals.

If the sink to the bottom.......well of course they're Conservatives. All Conservatives sink to the bottom of everything.

[Buenaventura]

8. "…the candidate's faithfulness…"?

that might rule out a bunch of 'em. sorta Newt-er the resolution, so to speak …

[SecularMotion]

9. kick

[applegrove]

10. I wonder if Rudy Giuliani would qualify these days.