The Republican National Committee will be meeting in January to vote on including in the GOP platform a list of ten issues in what is called their "Purity List". It becomes immediately clear that this list comes from the Glenn Beck Tea Bagger base as President Obama is being called out by name in the first two on the list. Its short prologue contains the word "Reagan" 7 times. Resolving that if a Republican candidate fails three of the Tea Party purity tests that the RNC must withhold funds to that candidate. Take away the two mentions of Obama and one other of your choice this so called "Purity List" is already the GOP Platform making this all non news.
I found that when I came to the end of the list I had a general feel of the KIND OF PEOPLE they are. Above all they despise paying taxes unless it goes for faraway wars which they want to jack up. They want no restrictions on guns so they can deal better with ALL IMMIGRANTS who they despise almost as much as paying taxes. And they have a viseral overwhelming hatred for the man who turned their White House Black. And of course all that makes them good Christian with a prepaid reservation in Heaven.
(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 healthcare;
(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; and be further