The Sauk County Republican Party adopted a resolution rejecting the candidacy (alt abbreviated version) of Dick Leinenkugel for United States Senate. The Sauk GOP’s press release begins trashing Leinenkugel’s role in the Doyle administration, a move we expected from the right-wing. Following a weak beer joke the release gets interesting — after a list of Sauk GOP goals, the group essentially calls for a purity standard for candidates from the Republican National Committee;
WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee has failed to provide a process for vetting candidates who uphold these principles; and
Strange that the Sauk County Republicans, who describe themselves as “grass-roots” are looking to the national party organization to apply standards to candidates in Wisconsin.
Or not-so-strange. This type of local/individual-control hypocrisy is typical from the GOP. They want limited government, except when they don’t want it. If sensibilities are violated, morality offended, legislate away! Amend the constitution to ban gay marriage, but health insurance for millions treads on me!
If the Republican base continues to insist on moving right, young conservatives will continue to leave the party. That don’t confront me none, but Democrats — take note. Be progressive, but pragmatic. Forward, for Wisconsin.
Isn’t it a person’s right to declare their own political “brand,” to use the Sauk County GOP’s term? Isn’t to say otherwise a violation of “the right to American liberties as established by the US Constitution,” which that group seeks to uphold?
A recent Newsweek quote (from the part where they just print one-liners) had a state Senator from Florida saying as much. Basically a condemnation of purity tests.
Amending the constitution regarding marriage wouldn’t create a new government program or cost billions of dollars, so it’s not big government in that sense. You are comparing apples and oranges.
forgot, banning same-sex marriage is big government in the respect that it’s government intruding into the lives of its citizens.
It’s a standard of society. In that same way that it would be intrusive of government to say you are not an adult until age 18 or that you need to attend school for 12 years. Do you find it equally intrusive that government says you can only marry one person instead of three?
The government needs a compelling reason to regulate. Those are pretty simple for schools and an age of majority. What benefit does disallowing gay marriage give society?
http://dailyradar.com/beltwayblips/story/planned-parenthood-director-leaves-has-change-of-heart/
Pot, meet kettle.
You win the incoherent, nonsensical post award. Ungratulations.
Thanks Jim. You’ve explained in one sentence your complete lack of education, and reason why you can’t get a full-time job.
No employer would give you a job with any responsibility when you have clearly failed to see the similarities with a person in a leadership role becoming disillusioned with their cause and departing. Only difference is, you’re going off on some two-bit college GOPer. The link above is a leader of a well-known, pro-death group quitting her cause.
But enjoy your life, Jim. Enjoy being 34 and working swing shifts at a gas station, or whatever the hell you can muster. (I’d suggest you get a job at Keith’s bookstore, but that isn’t going to happen.)
Thanks for reading!