Posts Tagged ‘GOP’

The RNC resolution Gabe blogged about at Ace yesterday has just arrived in my hot little hands.
WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have recently supported primary or special election candidates who professed allegiance to the Republican Party but who, as their circumstances changed and to [...]

Per Ace.   The RNC is vetting a set of 10 clearly stated principles; candidates agreeing to at least eight would be eligible for GOP support.
(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 [...]

Here comes the inevitable post-election call for an end to political parties.
The election’s over; should political parties be over too? Is it time to junk the Ds and the Rs after politicians’ names, and all the baggage that comes with them?
How meaningful and relevant are candidates’ political parties anymore? When a New England Republican can [...]

Gee Guy at Electric City Weblog kicks off the Montana version of the discussion going on at NRO, Ace, Patterico and a hundred other conservative blogs:  Where does the GOP do now?  Or, what do conservatives do now, realizing they’re not one and the same thing?
Gregg posits that there is a GOP litmus test that [...]