An RNC national committee member from Indiana, Jim Bopp and nine others, have proposed a resolution to not allow the national party to send money to candidates who do not meet eight of the ten party principles.
Those principles include opposing abortion rights, opposing same-sex marriage, opposing the stimulus package and cap and trade bills and supporting surges in Iraq and Afghanistan and gun rights, among others.
If the resolution passes, it may make things even more difficult for Kelly Ayotte in her quest for the GOP US Senate nomination and for the seat itself.
Bopp may get a vote on the floor of the RNC meeting this Jan. in Hawaii, or RNC chair Michael Steele may succeed in once again blocking a measure that could prove embarrassing. But candidates, and the party's professional class, uniformally call the resolution a bad idea.
John Nichols, in his blog at The Nation, has the exact wording of the resolution, plus compares the record of Ronald Reagan against it. Reagan comes up a loser.
Here is a partial list:
1) Deficit spending soared during Reagan's presidency. Strike one.
(5) Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which granted amnesty to most undocumented workers who could prove they had been in the country continuously for the previous five years. After he finished his presidency, Reagan continues to speak out forcefully for immigration rights. Strike five.
9) Shortly after his inauguration as governor of California, Reagan signed into law the most liberal abortion statute of its day". Strike nine.
So if Bopp and other extremists have their way, even Ronald Reagan would be unacceptable, maybe even be "Scozzafavaed". |
