A Litmus Test for GOP Candidates?

Without a call for a Constitutional Amendment requiring lethal injection for those convicted of hogging the left lane, this proposal could have trouble gaining enough support to pass.

The Republican National Committee could be on the verge of imposing a strict purity test on GOP candidates and officeholders, if a proposed resolution passes at their upcoming meeting in January:
If you disagree with the party line on three or more out of a list of ten key issues, no money or official party support for you.


The resolution, officially called "Proposed RNC Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates" draws its standard through a literal interpretation of an old saying of the Gipper's -- that someone who agreed with him 80% of the time is his friend, not his 20% enemy. Thus, this resolution sets 80% as a floor for support of GOP issues.

Below the photo of Connecticut's members of the Republican National Committee is the proposed 10 point list.

I'm not about to second-guess the three below all of whom are probably smarter than I am anyway.
Chris Healy, CT GOP Chairman; Patricia Longo, RNC National Committeewoman; and John Frey, RNC National Committeeman.


(1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill

(2) Market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;

(3) Market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;

(4) Workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check

(5) Legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;

(6) Victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;

(7) Containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat

(8) Retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;

(9) Protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and

(10) The right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership