Letters from the Desk of Ronald Reagan: Letters from the Desk of Ronald Reagan
PoliticalArticles.NET (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
A resoultion is being e-mailed around to Republican National Committee members for comments that proposes a conservative loyalty test. The “Resolution on Reagan’s Unity Principle for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy In case you missd them here are the ten "purity resolutions". (Is that anything like " purity balls "?) ( 1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill; (Oh that's bright. Do they also support smaller...
Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Oh, the dangers of revisionist history. The RNC has proposed a resolution, a limtus test, a "purity" test to deny any funding to GOP candidates didn't agree with 80% of their 10 point list of Republican principles. Why 80%? Because their icon, Ronald Reagan said that anyone who agreed with him 80% of the time was his "friend." The problem? Ronald Reagan would have failed in 6 of...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday
Newsweek's Howard Fineman thinks Barack Obama is a lot like Ronald Reagan. This humorously comes coincident with MSNBC's Chris Matthews declaring the current White House resident "Carteresque." Obviously they can't both be right, right? Of course not, for in the case of " Channeling the Gipper: For inspiration, Obama looks to Reagan ," Fineman couldn't be more wrong (h/t Jennifer...
History News Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
Elephants are supposed to have long memories but the Republican variety patently does not, judging by the fury over the ‘Obama deficits.’ In the GOP universe, these are the outcome of big-government spending and the only hope of fiscal restoration is to cut taxes. The Republicans appear to have forgotten that this was tried before by Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, with the main effect...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The following article was produced by the Raw Story and written by David Edwards and John Byrne. The latest trend in the Republican Party is an effort to weed out moderates -- witness New York Republicans' successful effort to oust their own candidate in an upstate House race, in preference for an independent conservative. But a new GOP "purity test" named for Ronald Reagan moves the line...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The RNC is considering making all Republican politicians take a ten-question Ronald Reagan-themed purity test! According to Daily Intel, “If someone disagrees with three or more of the policies, the resolution’s supporters want to withhold party money and endorsement. The 80 percent threshold comes from a famous Reagan quote: ‘The person who agrees with you [...] North Korea - Michael...
Weiwen's religion blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Adam Liptak writes for the NYT . WASHINGTON — In the next several months, the Supreme Court will decide at least a half-dozen cases about the rights of people accused of crimes involving drugs, sex and corruption. Civil liberties groups and associations of defense lawyers have lined up on the side of the accused. But so have conservative, libertarian and business groups. Their briefs and public...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
By Michael J.W. Stickings And so the Great Republican Purge of 2009 , soon to be 2010, continues to narrow the party down to a right-wing fringe, now reaching a new level of Bolshevik fervor. The Caucus's Adam Nagourney has the details : Republican leaders are circulating a resolution listing 10 positions Republican candidates should support to demonstrate that they "espouse conservative principles...
Rude Pundit (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Republicans Decide to Engorge the Whole Reagan : Upon the moment he gave up the ghost in 2004, a cabal of conservatives had a mold taken of Ronald Reagan's face. The mold itself has a sacred place of honor at RNC headquarters, and every time Republicans are newly elected to Congress, another death mask is made and sent to fresh Senators or Representatives to hang in their offices, horribly white and...
From Sea To Shining Sea (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
When Saturday Night Live turns on a liberal president, you know he's in trouble. (There's a commercial at the start that takes a moment). Two of the most deceitful partisans on MSNBC are Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews. They constantly slime and attack conservatives while putting positive spins on everything and anything liberal politicians do. Along with the SNL skit, this dialogue from Chris...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Who wrote these famous words? A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The latest trend in the Republican Party is an effort to weed out moderates -- witness New York Republicans' successful effort to oust their own candidate in an upstate House race, in preference for an independent conservative. But a new GOP "purity test" named for Ronald Reagan moves the line even farther to the right, and [...]
MNPublius.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
What do you think Ronald Reagan meant when he said that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, and not his opponent? Because I took it as a very general philosophy which simply implied that Reagan did not want to impose an ideological purity test on his allies. So [...]
Brilliant at Breakfast (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
We haven't heard about purity balls in a while, those formal dances for evangelical daddies and their little girls, in which those little girls who don't even understand what sex is yet pledge their virginity to Daddy until married off to some freak considered religious enough by Daddy. They haven't gone anywhere , they just don't get the press they used to. I wonder if the GOP is going to hold formal...
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