Republican Litmus Test 2009
ByNovember 26, 2009
I got a kick out of the new RNC set of guidelines for acceptance into the Republican Party Candidates. If anyone was here at CHB in 1999 you might have read my list of Prohibitions that would soon be incorporated in the RNC. When I wrote about this I had hundreds of Republicans screaming that they would NEVER have a litmus test for candidates. I fear I may have given them the idea.
George W. Bush, the Governor of Texas start out by promising the Churches a program of faith based grants. To me that would indicate a buying of the Ministers all over the USA to vote for him. In my world this is a big bribe and is very much in alignment with Lobbyists buying Congress.
To use President Reagan’s ideals shows me they never understood the Fiscal Conservative plan backed by Wm. F. Buckley, Senator Goldwater, and a dozen other leaders who wanted a downsized government. Well, I was there folks, and was part of that movement on how to pass the word that a new plan was in the works. People swarmed around Citizen Reagan on how to sell this new fiscally responsible party. If anyone had wanted a list of changes they knew better than to list them for approval. The plan was to encourage the voters to think for themselves and the government would step aside and allow them their choices.
The two items on this Litmus Test that I knew were coming as tests to join the GOP were: opposing gay marriages and a ban on abortions. There is no way in hell Governor Reagan would have planned this. He was the first State Governor to sign Roe v Wade accepting the law in California.
His background in the arts and the moving pictures kept him involved with the talented gay musicians, designers and actors in Hollywood. They were as equal as you and me.
This new RNC group believes they can simply write a list of everything President Obama wants and rub it out with insults. I did not vote for President Obama but never in a million years would I ever vote Republican again. The RNC would be better served if they would add keeping the candidates pants zipped for starters
Something basically evil has gotten into this new Social Conservative group that smacks of the Inquisitions of Europe. They speak of Governor Palin, comedy personalities Rush and Beck as if they have the ability to win any election.
The rest of the test would have thrown Bush out on his arse because he did not have the guts to face Immigration laws, or health care reform, and he took us to war on what may be the biggest lie ever told to the American people.
President Reagan knew how to win elections as he did not insult the American people. He made some mistakes but we all knew he made honest mistakes. We still ask if he knew about Iran Contra just as we will continue to ask whether President Bush 43 knew in advance about 911.
Seeing the need for this Litmus test shows me how weak and insecure the GOP has become. I say, let them die out in their disgraceful actions. I’m checking out the Modern Whig party. I’m not suggesting it here and I will offer no address but I will check them out.
5 Responses to Republican Litmus Test 2009
RichardKanePA
November 28, 2009 at 6:11 am
Sandy, I would have been clearer is you put the CHB link in 1999 in your posting.
Of course maybe you probably rightly assumed it can’t be retrieved. However I found what may be a similar link by you which follows,
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/rlc.html
Interestingly with all the hullabaloo over Sarah Palin, it is Mike Huckabee who would come close if the 2008 Presidential Election would come tomorrow, see,
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/09/24/looking-at-obama-gop-match-ups-for-2012/
Incidentallyly, Mike Huckabee debates in an opposite way as Sarah Palin. He is an example we can all learn from. He tries to find something nice to say about those he is arguing with instead of smearing them, including when arguing with Obama over health care,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/19/huckabee-calls-knee-jerk_n_364023.html
RichardKanePA
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/09/24/looking-at-obama-gop-match-ups-for-2012/
RichardKanePA
Sandra Price
November 28, 2009 at 6:51 am
Richard, there is no single link to my comments at Reader Rant years ago I stood strongly on my words of warning on CHB alone with a dozen other sites. I warned in 1988 about the One World Order through letters to the editors of many newspapers The threat of the One Word Order was clear in my mind as the NAFTA arrangement would be a terrible drag on our corporations. I’m tired of being questioned about my long involved work in politics. Everytime I saw a threat to our freedoms I wrote about it. I worked with Perot to stop NAFTA but of course I cannot prove my work.
The changes I learned about in our government were very clear after watching CSPAN and how the Congress worked. My warnings were useless as are my commentaries at CHB.
People want only their own agenda written about. Mine has been keeping the government out of our personal and private lives. I stopped writing for the internet over a year ago as I could not understand why people want the government to tell them wnat not to do. I closed up my website and gave up trying. My point of view is redundant.
My article was not against Huckabee nor Palin but against what the GOP has become. It seems much easier to call me a liar than to read and understand my opinions. I had two men try this here when I first wrote for Doug. They too spent months trying to counter my statements. I will not dig up my old articles on my opinions as it would bring only a fight between the two of us and I have no time left.
I can take criticism for my opinions but see no reason to prove to anyone what I warned about nearly 20 years ago. My warnings were clear that the government wanted more control over the American people. When President Bush 41 lost his reelection I saw a glimmer of hope. The hope of the RNC for one world order was squelched but not dead. It took President Bush 43 to figure out the weakness in the GOP to use it against the people. This is not a situation that can be accepted in America and the plan was for another Pearl Harbor. I saw it clearly and my warnings about this religious movement into our government to aave ourselves was overshadowed by popular demand to make America an Empire of the world.
Richard I have dozens of books behind me that were written as warnings of this new world order. I could have written a timeline for our destruction but gave up trying to warn people. Put your faith in Palin and/or Huckabee and I will not write another word about it.
RichardKanePA
November 28, 2009 at 8:28 am
Sorry Sandy, I mixed apples with oranges,
Originally, I noticed that no one responded to your blog post which discourages some viewers looking for discussion.
Reading it I thought it would be helpful to see if the 1999 link you mentioned was still available.
But I decided to sneak in another plug for looking for the good in those one opposes, not thinking that you would interpret it as a criticism of your blog post.
Almost no one is doing what Huckabee is so, I didn’t think anything about you thinking it was a directed at you. And Huckabee rather than really being different might just be pushed in that direction ever since he got in trouble for giving a college scholarship to a gifted child of an illegal immigrant.
I guess I thought you would appreciate it and wanted you to post on by blog post as well, but now I see that it suddenly is gone.
I hope the readers blogs aren’t a thing of the past and all I have to do is understand the new format. Hopefully wrong navigation has cause access deigned messages and password not recognized notations.
RichardKanePA
Sandra Price
November 28, 2009 at 11:12 am
Richard, I write often in the first person to share my long history of political activity. I realize that on the internet nobody cares about the memories of some old gal who was involved heavily in the Goldwater and Perot campaigns. I went on line to verify my own fears of what was happening in D.C. in general and the GOP in particular.
Being a proponent of the separation of church and state and involved in many 501(c)(3) not for profit charities, I’ve been extemely careful about working with any organization that wanted government action. I thought everyone wanted the separation and I was wrong. When the federal government began faith based grants, I wondered if the government would cancel the 501(c)(2) tax status. Of course not!
I followed every speech and action in the election campaigns that started in 1999 and the threat of the Prohibitions of bans on: abortions, gay marriages, stem cell research and death with dignity became the call to vote for either Governor Bush or Alan Keyes. Most people understood this prohibition desire and Alan called it “The Sin Amendment.”
When I wrote about this, the Members of Reader Rant were furious and I was banned here, Etherzone, VRWC, Good Bad and Ugly and dozen more. How foolish of me to think that the American People wanted demanding social legislation from the new Bush Administration.
I kept on elsewhere and now that I see the rotten lies and corruption in the GOP I knew I was out of order. People are raised to fear and worship God and it has extended into our Federal Government.
The last place for social legislation, should come from the Republican National Committee. I quit writing and logged off of all forums. I cannot be trusted with my desires for individual freedoms. Sharing many of my memores on any site is wasting my time. Because I cannot find a link to my memories, I must be lying.
At this point, I no longer give a damn. What is funny is that my memories of the Hollywood days are still popular. I lived with these people for the first 50 years and many are interested in my rememberances of those days.
Doug has suggested that you and the others may blog, write, debate on Reader Rant. I cannot, so good luck…..
Sandy
robchapman
November 28, 2009 at 6:41 pm
It is always fun to mock the GOP on their pompousness.
But two points on the GOP purity pledge are easy to refute.
(9) Protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion;
Current law denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, setting ceilings on annual and life-time health care benefits, restricting drug prescriptions to company formularies are all medical rationing. These measures and the pricing of 43 million Americans out of health care coverage would be stopped under President Obama’s reforms of American Health Insurance. The House of Representatives, the more liberal chamber passed Health Care Reform with a well-publicized provision forbidding federally funded abortions. Only one Republican supported the amendment when it came for a vote.
and
(10) The right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership
Cars are potentially lethal, therefore they are registered and operators must be licensed. Sensible people support the same for guns.