Tag: Purgers

The RNC Purity Test Is To Prevent A GOP Split

Filed in National by on November 25, 2009 16 Comments

Despite all the stories of the GOP resurgence, the possible implementation of an RNC purity test has bigger implications for the Republican Party. Members of the conservative group within the RNC tell The Washington Times that, besides aiming to make the GOP more consistently and reliably conservative by promoting lower taxes, keeping spending levels in […]

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The RNC Purity Test

Filed in National by on November 23, 2009 30 Comments

The RNC is trying to make the purity purges official by adopting a resolution on 10 principles Republican candidates must agree with in order to receive funding from the RNC (this is serious, apparently): THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, […]

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When Your Name Becomes A Verb

Filed in National by on November 10, 2009 26 Comments

The Washington Post has a profile on unsuccessful Republican House candidate Dede Scozzafava and the fallout from the unusual race for NY-23. Even as she now hopes to return to her normal life of local politics, laundry and choir practice for next month’s big performance of Bach’s Christmas Cantatas, the political forces that swept her […]

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Someone Is Confused

Filed in National by on November 6, 2009 2 Comments

Poor Charlie Crist is under a lot of pressure by the purgers and it’s obviously making him a bit confused: “I didn’t endorse it. I didn’t even have a vote on the darned thing,” Crist told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview Wednesday on The Situation Room. “But I understood that it was going to […]

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