A resolution is being circulated by RNC members which calls for candidates to support at least 8 of the 10 items listed below or face action by the RNC:
(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.
Why 8 of the 10? Because Ronald Reagan once said "that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, not his opponent." Makes perfect sense.
This test is a complete joke and almost guaranteed to chase another 5-10% of their party into the open arms of Democrats and smaller parties if they actually try to implement it. Would any of the New England Republicans defeated in 2006 & 2008 pass this test?
(1) No credibility here. Although he was aided by an incompetent Democratic Congress, the Bush administration is responsible for TARP which is far worse than the stimulus. Bush and the GOP are also mostly responsible for running up the deficit and national debt because of their irresponsible spending and tax cuts. Lose a turn and try again.
(2) That's fine I suppose but I'll be back to this one once we get to (9).
(3) As someone already said, cap and trade is market based. Epic fail.
(4) Agree. I am generally anti-"union". I am for workers' rights but unions are some of the most corrupt institutions in the country if you ask me.
(5) Totally unrealistic and devastating to the economy. Not to mention, who will they get to watch their children and clean their houses after they've kicked all the menial laborers out?
(6) Define "victory." The majority of people fighting us in Iraq would either leave or lay down arms as soon as we did the same. They mostly fall into the categories of foreign (non-Iraqi) terrorists fighting us there due to easy access to targets and native Iraqis who are sick of us squatting in their country. As for Afghanistan I don't think Obama or I would have any problems continuing the fight there.
(7) Because containment has worked so well in the past.
Remind me, is Cuba still communist?
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Absolutely not. Its completely Unconstitutional and an affront to equal rights. The modern day GOP is no better than the segregationist era Democratic Party. They encourage a culture of intolerance, hatred, and second-class citizenship.
(9) This is completely contradictory with regards to (2). We already have health-care rationing. The rich get it and the not-poor-enough don't. That's rationing with a bias against the most vulnerable persons if you ask me. Unless you support a system of
universal coverage there will
always be rationing because someone will be without care. Abortion is an elective procedure so it should be treated as such.
(10) ....and nuke ownership, and fighter jet ownership right? No? Then shut the hell up. If you don't need those things you don't need any other weapons used primarily for military purposes. The only legal civilian firearms should be handguns for protection and rifles and such for hunting.
So I guess I score a 1.5/10
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