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The Elephant is rolling over in its grave.......

To the idiots that keep claiming we are a center-right country, no we are not. We are a center-left country. We won, get over it LOSERS!!!

just read the list of things they are for/against. They are e\ssentially against the 20th and 21st centuries. No unions, no workplace protections no alternative energy, keep fossil fuels burning without regulation or change, no religious freedom....

I beleive the term is usually one of the following: cavemen, or knuckle-draggers, or troglodytes.

Now all of you Obama and liberal bashers we have been telling you this about your beloved republican party , they care absolutely nothing about you , if your views are anywhere near a moderate stance then you don't fit that critiera , boy talk about communism , the rightwingers have surely gone off the deep in , their main concern is "GETTING BACK INTO POWER " , so your needs and wishes will surely go unnotice by your ever loving republican party.!

The Republicans don't need to get fancy just cut spending and cut keep taxes where they are...if they balance the budget then they will get re-elected everytime.....Get Bin Laden then get the heck out of Afghanistan and we'll be happy. Increase solar, wind, natural gas and nuclear power, but also drill our own off shore oil. Treat the prisoners reasonable but keep Gitmo open and try terrorist in military courts not NYC.....it's not that complicated. The american people want less government but effective government. Everyone needs to vote in the next election.

These people that call themselves republicans are like cannibals , they tend to turn on each other at the drop of dime , Michael Steele is about to be purged from their ranks and don't say we told you so !!

The God Opposing Party is America's Taliban.
Be afraid, America.
Be very afraid...

And you stupid Blacks who think you will ever fit in... good luck!

Mr. Steele...your turn is coming...they'll turn on you,too – then where will you go?

Oh, wait! The Democrats is the real big-tent Party ... look at all the differing opinions the hold on the health care reform...and they are still allowed to remain in the Party! You might even find a place there, O Man of Steele!

"It would be wonderful if the people writing these articles could read and speak english. I counted more that 15 grammer errors in this brief article. I also counted a dozen errors in sentence structure.
I stopped reading the article because of the poor writing.
Maybe our education system isn't as good as the government wants us to think it is."

Thats what happens when tax dollars go towards wars instead of American schools or other social programs. Remember socialism is a bad thing!

Hello, America can't handle right wing republicans any more then they can progressives. I understand, as someone that identifies with progressives, that I'll win some and lose a lot more. Is it so hard for Republicans to understand that? What happened to the intelligent, thought provoking republicans?

What's next... a loyalty oath?

What if those 2 out of 10 issues are about weapons bans and abortion rights? If a candidate agrees with the other 8 will he/she still get the money?

I think that seals it. They are no longer the Republican Party; they are the Tea party. Fine. Three parties: Democrat Party, Republican Party and Tea Party. We will have to figure out what happens to the Conservative Party.

Actually, I think this is a great idea. The Democrats should follow suit. Then perhaps we'll end up with a whole bunch of viable parties instead of two party hegemony. Republicans are actually (and accidentally I might add) putting country first.

The points all begin "We support" and then many describe how they oppose it. For example cap and TRADE is market based. What do they think TRADE means?

But the main thing is that they don't really even do what they say they do. Smaller government my petutti– Republicans spend like drunken sailors just like democrats do.

Whatever Republicans. Long live the Independents.

Sort of like an AA checklist?

Michael Steele is a FlUNKY!!! He's there for the forefront ONLY and will get KICKED TO THE CURB!!

Wow – they are forming a GANG!!! There is an "Initiation" in order to qualify!!!

Better yet – It sounds like a KKK club to me!! Now all they need are white hoods, white robes and nooses!!

LOSERS!! All they are doing is making the Independent Party and/or the Democratic Party grow larger!! Lou Dobbs will beat the right WingNUTS!!

Have these clown made it finally perfectly clear that they only represent the angry fringe right, the ones with the twisted faces at the fake town hall meeting. It makes Michael Steele seem like a liberal.

What a sad state of affairs for the Grand Obstructionist Party.

On the other hand, maybe that will open the doors for a third party. It'd be great to have more than just two parties to choose from.

they are purging the unbelievers from the party so they can get ready for the end in 2012!

*** NY-23 crystallized for us some of the issues the Tea Party people had with Republican party ****

....and therefore we'll do a much better job of kowtowing to right-wing nutjobs in the future, he did not add.

"My way or the high-way." Fits right into the narcissistic personalities of most right-wing conservatives. They aren't even willing to see another point of view or how a compromise between two views could be reached. Sadly, there are plenty with similar tactics on the left. Good thing most of America is moderate. America: 10% far left, 70% Moderate, 20% far right.

The GOP is a joke, from top to bottom. They are a pathetic bunch of ingrates. Purity Oath? Unbelievable. Disgusting, rotten-to-the-core morons. Reading through the comments, there were inly a few schmucks who tried to defend this action. Convervatives are excruciatingly stupid people.

Palin: My Father Raised 'Tough Hunting Buddy'

Not so tough quiter, talk is cheap!

She crys 24-7 about her failures, blames everyone esle. How About shouldering some blame quiter.

Couldn't even handle simple questions, tough please!

She's a fake and a fraud, keep winking star burst lady.

And Steele just keeps on smiling ... I swear, one day that man's head is just going to explode!

People who call President Obama a Marxist or a Communist don't know the meaning of the words ... THAT'S what scares me about politics today: how adept the GOP has become at manipulating and exploiting ignorant people through fear-mongering and hatred.

The GOP, the Tea Baggers, Limbaugh, Palin, Hannity and Beck all thump their chests and wail on about how President Obama is somehow "taking their freedom."

And yet, the GOP is the party with the purity test and the intolerance of differing opinions, backed up by the threat of being called unpatriotic, or – in their book, the worst punishment of all – being denied political funding.

How anyone can call themselves a Republican these days is beyond me! I feel so sorry for my moderate Republican friends and family – no wonder they are all leaving the party!

Ronald Reagan himself would be immediately called a "liberal socialist marxist" and thrown out the party for his big-tent talk. Remember the term Reagan Democrats? That term came into play b/c he reached across the aisle and listened to folks that didn't agree with him all the time.

They should have really been concerned about NY-23, a Republican district that hasn't gone blue since the CIVIL WAR. That was a safe, shoe-in for the GOP.

The party of Teddy Roosevelt (true progressive), Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan is dead.

God, I the fact that the Republican Party is doing this. They're eating their heads, and it shows. If they pass this, they can kiss any chance of beating the Democrats goodbye. They are not a party of inclusion, and now they're finally saying out loud.

Wow-this has the libs so upset they can hardly spell anything right in their replies! And I haven't seen anybody from the RNC call it a "purity resolution"-as far as I can tell that came from CNN. Kinda like Sarah Palin getting credit for that Tina Fey remark "I can see Russia from my house". Talk about an inconvenient truth!

Steele is an indiot if he thinks the "good ole Southen WHITE men club" is going to give him full control and power of the RNC.

The GOP and RNC is a WHITE SOUTHERN legacy, Steele is nothing but their "Uncle Tom puppet." Nothing more.

Do the "true believers" also have to wear a brownshirt or a white hood?

It is amazing how surprising this is to all the lefties posting here. Wow, so incredible, a party has a platform and requires it's members to adhere to it. Stunning indeed.

so there bright idea is the ten commandments of the Repulican party(ironic ain't it?),So any that might not fit that mold will be in sense tossed out of the party.lol well lets see any now serving moderate repubs now have their own party to fear, hmmm might it be better to work with the independents and dems be better for them being as they have more folks?lol empty from the leaders of the party of NO HOPE,NO IDEAS,and NO FUTURE.My goodness what have the party of Lincon and Reagon are doing to them selfs. They can purge the impure from the party.How sad they Repulican party of today has become.Now the time has indeed come for a Rational 3rd party to form.

so there bright idea is the ten commandments of the Repulican party(ironic ain't it?),So any that might not fit that mold will be in sense tossed out of the party.lol well lets see any now serving moderate repubs now have their own party to fear, hmmm might it be better to work with the independents and dems be better for them being as they have more folks?lol empty from the leaders of the party of NO HOPE,NO IDEAS,and NO FUTURE.My goodness what have the party of Lincon and Reagon are doing to them selfs. They can purge the impure from the party.How sad they Repulican party of today has become.N

What a bunch of idiots. There won't be anyone left in the party so Steele should have plenty of money left over.

It would seem that someone forgot where all the money comes from in these campaigns. The insurance, medical, oil, and other purchasers of votes will shortly drop the Republican party as a rotten investment, so the question of "Who gets GOP sponsorship?" will shortly become moot. Smart investors don't put money into losers. If the GOP dosen't smarten up, they are doomed to become an afterthought. Political purity? That's a laugh anyway.

How do you win a National election with 20% of the- most radical- of the electorate ?

Democrats and Republicans are the same beast.
A politician is just the same no matter the stupid name.
Each can pretend their for this or that but in the end they just want to get fat.
On the shoulders of the People, the pockets of the poor and the minds of our children. This whole game is one big farce!
It's time to put the politicians in check and set the course of America back in the right direction.
Is America truly so naive now to believe a word any of them say?

Oh please oh please oh please let it be so!
We must purge all non purists from the GOP and hold those elected to a stringent standard of hard core conservatism.
We must obscond all so called "conservatives" who claim to be so, but work with those flaming liberals to make laqws that a majority of americans can agree with.
This kind of purist reform may lead to the marginalization of the GOP across america.
I can only hope that they are successful in this ideological cleansing of their party.
So they everyone else can just get back to work fixing the problems caused by this kind of narrowminded idocy.

Man I have just got to volunteer for the Repubs. I will faithfully help them purge the impure from their ranks. Can't wait for the next election.

They just get dumber and dumber and yell louder and louder...

This is hysterical! You know the Democrats will be promoting this as an issue even if it is not formally adopted by the GOP.

I couldn't help but notice there was nothing in there about maintaining any standard of personal morality, such as not cheating on one's spouse, not lying in public, etc. Wonder why?

That's just wonderful. Thank you once again, former party of mine (and I ain't a Democrat, either).

WHAT Environmental fraud?????????????????

Some GOPers need to learn how to spell "democrackpipe"!

Oh my goodness........ had I not read this just now, I would not have believed it!

"Purity resolution" what has the GOP become the Fascist party? Purity was something that the Nazis wanted, fought for and demanded! The GOP is getting more and more frightening everyday.

So, what they are saying is, any Moderate, anyone with middle-of-the-road beliefs is not welcomed!

Looks like the Moderates, Independents will not have much choice any more in our Nation.

Do the GOP know that ONLY 15% of Americans claim to be conservatives?

Sure, get rid of everybody with a brain or a mind of their own. Turn yourself into the small ridiculous party of scared religious people and leave the rest of us alone.

I hate liberals...and the GOP is weak, they really don't appreciate TRUE American values!!! As a ultra-conservative nationalist, I want to take America back when it was ruled by true Americans!!!! The cherokee, seminoles, apache, our true fathers of America. Now the Republicans want illegal immigrants out, when their ancestor came without an invitation???? (SARCASM)

Moderate or republicans with common sense you have two options: leave the GOP and join democrats or make a true centre-right party.

Official deymise of the Republican Party. Non of those morons can pass their own test. CYA!!

I've always considered myself a moderate independant. Of the ten-point GOP ideological platform, I agree with five of their points and disagree with five. But if the GOP is determined to move away from the middle and to the far-right extreme, I'm sure I'll be voting Democrat far more often. And I find it hard to believe I'm the only moderate thinking that way. The extremes always go their respective parties; elections are won in the middle. This can't bode well for the future of the GOP.

Aren't these the same geniuses that gave us 8 years of Dubya? You remember two recessions, two lost wars, no worries about al Qaeda, "science editors, and all the lies any true believer would accept. Now, they give us John, the minority leader, who assures us that there is no evidence that CO2 emissions are carcinogens. Their heroes are strong value senator Mark Sanford facing 36 ethics violations and MooseJaw Mollie who believes dinosaurs wore saddles. Put us out of out misery guys. Everyone vote Republican and let it all be over.

Go repubs! There is no such thing as moderate. You either a secrete democrate or a right wing extremist a la Pinochet, Franco etc.. They should bar everyone who's saying he's moderate. Thumb up for Palin/Dobb 2012!

Communist? Taliban? The majority in the republican party are conservative. They are simply tired of THEIR MONEY going to support candidates who don't represent their interests. It is hypocritical for liberals who demand that DNC monies be distributed to candidates who share their views to then criticize and demean conservatives for doing the same. That being said, "moderates" lose elections. "Moderates" have no back-bone. "Moderates" are afraid to do what is right. Worry about your own party and let republicans worry about theirs.

Purity? Wow, kinda sounds like 1930's Germany and a political party that they had there.

Is one of the 10 points "I will never allow the wealthy to throw another party at the expense of the country's children?" Is one of them "I will stop telling the lie that reducing taxes on the wealthy will bring in more tax revenues?" Is one of them "I will learn basic math?" Is one of them "I will not campaign for smaller government so I can win election and then expand government more than any other time in history?" Is one of them "I will stop treating the country's children as indentured slaves who can pay for my cruise at a later date?" I bet not.

So, the Tea Party and the Republican party are now one and the same?

Yes the Rebirther Tea party member need to be more pure, more white, more dogmatic, more strident, more unyielding, more recalcitrant, more reactionairy, more unhinged, more paranoid, more deceitful . . .

Why do we need Saturday night live, when we have Republicans live?

I"ll contribute $1000 to the RNC for Sarah Palin's chasity belt. Nothing personal dude.

Obey! Obey! Obey! There is only one politically correct right-wing view, so obey! Obey the extremists and radicals and fundamentalists! No other opinions allowed!

Ironically, the Republicans now sound like Stalinists, demanding only one mindset. The "conservatives" are now the guardians of politically correct.

A resolution is not a way to illustrate that you "mean what you say". It's a way to illustrate that you say what you say.

I'm trying to recall where I last heard this rhetoric. Oh yes, now I remember, this is essentially the same dictate that guides al Quida. RNC, great company you keep.

how is coming in and steam rolling another candidate out of a "free election" considered conservative?

'Stupid Steele' is so dumb, he has failed to recognize that we all see the strings of his behind-the-scene Republican puppet masters.

I love it! A "purity" test for Republicans...that should be great for late night comedy. We really do miss "awol" and " five deferments" as those two were tragically funny. What happens if a Republican is not "pure" enough? Can that Republican still commit adultery? Fraud? Do "pure" Republicans have to denounce science and fact? Remember, Palin thinks man coexisted with dinosaurs....is she "pure" enough or just right?

Sounds like rationing to me.

Honestly, I can't see how a party that kills off sections of their own party can double speak that it's the other party that is killing off Grandma.

Wow... having the government or any party creating a standard that you have to pass to be in a party is the most un-conservative thing you could ever do. Do any of these people even know what a conservative is or believes.

I guess I would have to take this purity doctrine as a statement meaning for the voters as well.
If you say you are a republican, please take this purity doctrine test and see if you are really a Republican. Keep in mind you have to agree with their points as it is now the doctrine of the Republican party.
If you do not pass you should not vote republican next time...maybe you should look elsewhere for your paragon of hope.

STUPID STEELE CANNOT SEE HE IS A PUPPET IN HIS OWN PARTY . . .

When Steele became RNC Chairman, his first endeavor was to expand the GOP to include moderates, independents, and varying ethnicities.

Today, "Stupid Steele" has done an about-face and allowed RNC members to dictate membership rules for the Republican Party. Every new idea Stupid Steele comes up with, RNC members challenge it and deny him leadership. Steele is so stupid he has failed to recognize that others see the strings of his puppet masters.

I LOVE the Republican party. As a lifelong Democrat, I can't think of any better way to shrink this party down than by enacting "purity" guidelines... soon they'll be goosestepping around and checking your Republican papers.

I think that's the main difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals will let you think whatever you want, as long as you don't limit anyone else. Conservatives don't WANT you to think, just follow the Rules, or Commandments, or Purity Guidelines, or whatever else they're calling the thought police over there now.

I always knew that when a Conservative spouts the word "justice" he really means "just us". Go ahead and continue to splinter the party, you idiots. The opposition is loving it!

Well, as a moderate republican, if this passes, I am a republican no more. Too bad there aren't more moderate republicans and moderate democrats. If there was, maybe we could actually get our country back on the right track.

Try and try again... I hope you find your way. It must include most Americans though. If not, you will still be the "NO" people. Not the "KNOW" people. Think about what that truly means...Ponderous huh?

Wow – the Republicans bad mouth the Democrats as "socialists" and are about to commit a purge to "purify" their party. Sound strangely dictatorial to me (shade of JOe Stalin and the like).

The Democrats will gladly welcome the moderate Republicans to their party as the GOP goes swirling down the drain.

good this list of requirements will destroy the party
i have had enough bye republican party the party of birthers, haters and liers

WRT the values our forefathers died for, such as freedom of speech, tolerance of others, and protecting the rights of the minority, I think the GOP has now crossed the line into "un-American". Its really quite shocking to watch a party once famous for its serious thinkers dissolve into incoherence and intellectual depravity.

What made our country great were the great leaders willing to work together and compromise toward a common purpose. Today the leaders of the GOP are a few hints shy of their first clue on how to keep this country great. The only thing their party can agree on is to twist the truth and then say “no”.

All hail the rise of the Libertarian Party!

Reagan also ran huge deficits and tried to balance them by increasing "fees," so that makes six out of ten that he failed. He was also divorced which is outlawed by the Bible, but Southern Baptists lead the nation in that category so that hypocrisy is already firmly rooted. Funny thought. The right wing nuts keep comparing us with the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism, but they are the ones bedwetting over every conspiracy, appealing to the middle class xenophobia and nationalism, using propaganda and racism to sway the masses, and getting rich in the process. So add on a purity test. Perfect. Beck/Limbaugh/Palin and now Jim Bopp Jr. (really?) are fitting themselves for Brown Shirts.

Just as nature has Natural Selection, why don't wehave an IQ test for polititians ???

Awesome. This is going to make the Republican party even more radio-active. This is going to further limit them to one race, one region, one religion. (Steele doesn't count...at all.)

This is good for everyone. Sooner or later something like this will happen with the Democratic party. When it does...we'll be looking at a 4 or 5 party system. Nothing but good can come from that.

"purity" sounds an awful like something that would be proposed in the 60's. Have the Rep's learned NOTHING?

"It's just the opposite," he told CNN. "What it says is that we are a broad party, that we understand people are not going to agree with us on every issue."

They tolerate disagreement on up to two issues!

Wasn't there a party in Germany once that wanted purity? Whether it's racial or idealogical, I guess this is the end of America being a cultural melting pot.

Imagine what will happen if they regain power?!!!

So that purity test should only fit about 15-20% of the population then. I wonder how they expect to win without the moderates and the independents?

The GOP is in shambles.

I hope all the sensible people that considered themselves Republicans (moderate or not) before the travesty that was the last election defect to the Libertarians or start a new party based in reality and grounded in fiscal conservatism.

And if any Republican votes for their constituency over the party, that would also be a sin.And vote against Obama even if its for the good of the country.

There is no such thing as a pure republican.

It's hypocrisy to call Democrats Socialist when the real Nazis are in the Republican party. I don't know why anyone would want to vote for people who are going to try tell you how to think. Diversity is not something the GOP embraces. Ideological purity is a sure road to ruin for the party of Lincoln.

The Republicans are hijacked by uneducated, hate-mongers devoid of any real ideas. All they do is start wars based on lies and pander to the big $ lobbyists.

This is the only way we can get our country back. Everybody has got to be on the same page. Just look at the Dems now, they've got the majority in both houses and yet there is nothing but bickering amongst themselves and nothing gets done for the American people. Repubs in 2010 and 2012.

EVENTUALLY THE GOP PARTY DECREE WILL, , ,

1) – be against thinkers with an independent view on a single issue,
2) – be against Catholics, Jews, and other non-protestant faiths,
3) – be against citizens that cherish privacy, liberty, and freedoms to choose,
4) – execute violent reprisals against those it does not like (ala Philippine politics),
5) – advocate the use of any scandalous method to attain its goals.

The GOP is more like the Communist Party than any other.

Party Loyalty before the good of the country.

These ten points of Republican Loyalty have the aroma of Boss Limbaugh all over them. What a bunch of lemmings these Republicans have become. Idiots !

To borrow from Albert Einstein: "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits".

By next week there will be only 19% of Americans who admit they are Republicans.

Purity resolution? Sounds like the same drum beats of the right wing in Germany during the 1930s. Will there be mandated outstreched arm salute to go along with that resolution? Maybe a Sieg heil!

The delusion that so many of you are laboring under (the ones who AREN'T merely kneejerk Liberals who will boo anything Republican or Conservative like the crowds in the Colliseum– and wishing you could see the lions eat the Christians again), is that you have bought into the Liberals' little wordplay. Any Republican who is actually a Liberal gets labeled "Moderate"– making Conservatives, ipso facto, extreme Right Wing nuts. In other words, if you don't believe a woman shoudl be able to murder her baby at will, if you don't think that marriage means anything, if you are for fighting the war this nation is embroiled in, against those who attacked her, and if you believe in God, you are AUTOMATICALLY a Far Right "Wingnut". This is what the Republicans are finally FINALLY trying to deal with. They are at LAST making an attempt to ensure that when you vote for the Republican candidate you are actually getting a Republican. That's called truth in advertising. No wonder it has infuriated the Liberals... they hate truth whatEVER form it takes! LOL

what a pack of right-wing nutters..... Steele and company give new meaning to lunatic fringe.....

Aren't the republicans always preaching about somebody taking their freedoms, this is the most incredible thing I have ever heard, what is wrong with these people have they truly lost it, I guess they don't realize that it is a whole country out their not just birthers and teabagers if this is their new aproach it is insane

With their stringent laundry list litmus test, the Pubs are starting to sound like a new arm of the Taliban.

(1) We really wanted another great depression
(2) No plan for health reform
(3) No plan to curb global warming
(4) Low wages and low benefits for all workers. More money for the CEOs!
(5) Ilegals bad.
(6) More troops regardless of the mission.
(7) Duh.
(8) Gays bad.
(9) More money for health insurance companies, with less coverage for all.
(10) Arm the crims.

I wonder if Reagan, a moderate CALIFORNIA Republican, would pass,...guess not since he raised taxes,...

Lets make the GOP a little more close minded and full of hate. WHats happening to the Republicans.

What a disgrace

The sad part is a bunch of people actually thought this was a good idea.

No? Well then maybe they could just muzzle him.

Can we be honest here for a second, I mean brutally honest and forthright......

Would Micheal Steele be in his current role within the Republican Party if Barrack Obama lost the election......?

_________________

Can I be Honest? Steel became RNC chairman after the election....not before.

It's not often in anyone's lifetime that history records the spectacle of a historic political party committing suicide. But now, the attempt is clearly being made. Let us hope and pray that the attempt will not be successful. If the perpetrators of this outrage should attempt suicide, political or otherwise, that's different. Let none hinder.

Yes indeed, Purity is important in the Republical Partyl Joesph Goebels, Von Ribenstoff, Reinhard Heidrich must be looking up from hell and feeling proud of the Republican Party.

What a bunch of clowns. If I didn't have such utter disdain for them I would feel sorry for them.

What are they trying to say? If you haven't cheated on your wife, gone after little boys, drove drunk and go to church every Sunday your not entitled to RNC funds?

Ricketts disagreed with the suggestion that the measure is an attempt to purge moderate voices from the GOP. "It's just the opposite," he told CNN. "What it says is that we are a broad party, that we understand people are not going to agree with us on every issue."

"The Republican Purity Resolution"
(howling, holding my sides, tears streaming down my face)

OH, OH!!! Are they going to have a purity ball too? And take the "pledge"? They'll all get little heart pendants and Rushbo the key!

Wow! History does repeat itself. A purity decree.

Sounds like the rantings of Germany 1939.

This really is the party of extremism and extremists.

Norman

The party of hate continues to push anyone and everyone away that isn't a FULL BLOOD NeoCon. They should start calling each other commrade.

First, the Republicans didn't want to even allow debate on Health Care Reform, which is censorship and fascism. Now, they have a 'Purity Test?' This sounds more like a cult. How delusional ARE these people? Either way, they scare me and make me afraid of an America under such a distorted view.

Call me crazy, but even I, a die-hard liberal, miss the days when the Republicans made sense. Even if I didn't agree with them, I could at least respect them. And at times they were good for keeping my Democrats honest. With them in freefall the democrats have no counterbalance and everyone is just starting to sound crazier.

So the Republicans are being asked to follow 70% of the Commandments. Isn't that special!

Keep leaning far right and make our day!

Does the RNC realize that Reagan would only have scored 4/10 on that test? Does this mean that the Republican Party doesn't support Reagan?! What's next? Loyalty Oaths to Palin?

I'm very happy about this resolution. It will ensure that the Republican Party remains a shrinking minority party for at least another generation, never wins another national election, never wins another state election outside the Deep South, and hopefully will shrink the GOP into permanent irrelevancy.

So you go, Mr. Bopp.

Frankly, I respect a man who will write down his positions and stick by them. I thought it was bold when Newt Gingrich created the Contract with America. Even though I did not agree with all of his positions, I knew where he stood.

I wish this was a requirement for political candidates and parties. Alas, politicians are far too slippery.

The Democrats were going to counter with their own 10 points but they could only think of 9:
1. Spend spend spend.
2. Spend spend tax.
3. Spend tax tax.
4. Tax tax tax.
5 Tax spend spend.
6. Tax spend tax.
7. tax tax spend.
8. Spend tax spend, and
9. tax spend spend.

Probably not a good idea to have a purity resolutiion within the party. It would be best to just let state and local primaries determine the Republican candidates based on the wishes of the local registerd Republicans. But I don't really care much either way.
As an independent conservative, I will vote only for a conservative candidate. Don't care what party they belong to, Republican, Independent, third party or even Democrat. I believe my position is the same as a majority of conseratives. We don't care what the Republicans do. We do care about voting for conservative canditates. Our loyality is to conservativsim, not the Republican party. If the Republicans on the ballot on election day are true conservatives, I will vote for them. If not I will choose an alternative.

The scary thing is to realize we have elected congressmen who think this makes sense.

So much for the "big tent" philosophy....scary mentality but not surprising. Alot of Republicans are a fearful, intolerant bunch of ideologs...so out of touch yet claim to "real" America. Not sure their idol Ronald Reagan would be proud.

please split,

Moderate Republicans can save the day here.

Let the Brown Shirts Conservatives devour each other.

Good luck Mr. Steele, time of your life eh?

Reagans' "Big Tent" concept is another of the things NeoCons would like you to forget about. I hope this movement gathers speed and that they purge all the HERETICS immediately. The sooner the RNC is stripped down to nursing-home-bound grumpy oldsters and Becksters/Limbots the better.

From what I read, not once did they mention the Constitution of the United States of America. They did talk about Reagan a lot though, as if he accomplished a lot.

"We felt like we needed to send a message that we are the party of conservative values. This resolution is one way to demonstrate that we mean what we say."

LOL, oh oh, I'm holding my sides....OMG....I'm laughing so hard I think I just wet myself!!!

It's not about "purity." It's about "PRINCIPLES." Political parties have to stand for something. That's what seperates republicans from democrats. Republicans actually stand for something other than getting elected and re-elected.....or at least they used to.

Unfortunately the republican party has turned into a money machine for democrats who can't get nominated by their own party or elected as a democrat (Graham, Schwarzenegger, Scozzafava, McCain, ect.). It's about time they started cleaning house and getting back to the principles that made them a great party to begin with. And why is it the media is never so harsh with the democrats when they punish and rein in the blue dogs?

This is an artificial story created by CNN to diver attention from Obama, Gore, the steaming pile of Marxists surrounding Obama, the health care rape of America bill, ad nauseum.

I'd say this is the dumbest thing the RNC has ever done, but then again, Michael Steele is still their chairman

Just like the republicans, there are even trying to stop anything that
resembles freedom of speech. Communist fool is correct. No room
for any freedom with these idiots

This coming just when the GOP was starting to gain steam for the mid-term Congressional elections. This does far more damage to their hopes of retaking the House than Nancy Pelosi could ever have accomplished. They have met the enemy, and they is them.

Let's see if I can repeat what this guy just said.
1. This is a 'purity' decree.
2. For a Republican to receive any support from the RNC, they have to meet at least 7 of their criteria.
3. Otherwise, they must be 'liberals' and the Republicans have no place for them.

Talk about socialism, this is communism. Back to the Bush/Cheney days and even worse where if you didn't agree with them you were not a patriot. May the good Lord spare me from idiots like this man and those in the party who support this non-sense. Are they crazy or just plain stupid?

Woe be unto America should the Republicans ever seize power again.

Tortured for your sins, hanged for blasphemy, burned alive for being a Scientist. Those were the results of purity tests in days of yore that some "Conservatives" want to being back.

What is all this "Tea Party" stuff? Does the Republican party even know what the Tea Party was?

History lesson 1:

The Tea Party was an event organized by wealthy business owners paying regular people to dress up in Native American garb and destroy other peoples product so they could corner the market. The taxes never went away. They went into the pockets of the business owners none of which were actually there dumping tea into the harbor.

I really wish the Republican party would quit using "Tea Party" as a title for their events but really it's the same thing. It's just that the average person doesn't know what really happened. "Taxation without representation" is far from the true story.

Just as it was then the people who will benefit from such gatherings are hidden away while those who will suffer are throwing the tea into the harbor. Their lives will be no better from their organizing to benefit these big business.

No headlines about the invironmental fraud ? Rahm got your tongue ?

This is of no consequence. Palin is going to oust the Marxist Obama.

If I were a Republican, I might well want to handcuff Steele. While he is nowhere near as silly as Palin, he produces plenty of embarissing quotes.

Since I am not a Republican, I am delighted to see the GOP creating rules that will ensure a Dem majority for a long time to come. Lord help us, we will need one to dig out of the Bush years.

Oh please, oh please, let the republicans purge themselves of the unclean conservatives who would pollute the party. The GOP is on a path of self destruction. Thank you nut jobs!

just wonder if Rush has stamped his approval on this one yet. This might be the BEST thing to happen for Dems and Indies in quiet a while..I'm sure the next RNC will be smaller, older, and whiter than the one last year.

This process started in Kansas about ten years ago, now it has spread to the rest of the country and you are all starting to wake up. Moderate Republicans used to be strong here, then they made the mistake of getting into bed with the social conservatives and anti-taxers who called themselves Republicans for the sake of winning a few elections. Now, the moderates are all gone, "RINOS" who have been purged from the party by those who put ideological purity above all (including compromise, which is a necessary part of democratic governance).

The one bright spot is that they will eventually eat their own–when ideological purity is your touchstone, no one will ever be pure enough, and even these limited coalitions will break down. In the meantime, however, heaven help us if any of these wingnuts gets elected!

Here's hoping the resolution is adopted by the RNC. That will guarantee a GOP loss in the next election. But that evidently doesn't matter. The main thing is to 'purify' the GOP.

Bravo, all you GOP "big thinkers"!

Based on the Purity Resolution Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were both democrats.

And the Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell, with his remarkable talent for making untruth sound proufoundly wise, is the perfect person to lead this brave new party into oblivion.

You have to admit, At least they have finally told the world they don't fit in their narrow view. We as a nation should move on while these nuts live out their lives in the 19th century.

The world is changing, growing up. This natural evolution will favor tolerance and social concern. Big tents will continue to replace small ones.

I for one am glad to be rid of them

Purity Resolution, how Taliban like is that ?

If democrats told me I had to pass a Purity Test to be a democrat I would be gone in a heart beat.

GOP makes me hate religion !

I wonder if this new GOP realizes that Ronald Reagan couldn't pass their new test or requirements or what ever the hell this thing is. One word, IDIOTS.

"We felt like we needed to send a message that we are the party of conservative values."

And, thus, the Republicans move even further to the extreme right. Goose stepping classes will begin ASAP, just as soon as the Nation Building results are in. Drive out dem moderate Repubs by all means. Dos folks have way too much intelligence us Repubs.

Oh yeah ... go for it. Watch the Repubs being flushed down the toilet of history.

These guys are just begging to lose elections to the Obamacrats!
Unbelievable.

What a great way to totally eliminate elected Republicans from everywhere except the South and the lily-white flyover states: make GOP candidates adhere to the rightwingnut standards of small-town rubes.

The GOP implosion continues....

And the GOP has the nerve to accuse Obama of fascism. That's right, GOP. Toss out what few remaining moderates you have so that they can become Democrats and Independents and watch your party shrink into oblivion.

Who cares!!!! I mean really?

The word is not purity, it is purely wingnut bull.

Lets not forget the party of FEAR, that's there corner stone!

This is clearly NOT democratic. Will they have to kneel at the feet of their next emerging "leader"? America is turning into a nightmare of epic proportions! Who will save the children? Not any of these extreme capitalist nuts!

If this resolution goes through, I will never vote Republican again. Despite being a liberal Democrat, I have always maintained an open mind to conservative ideas, particularly with regards to economics, because I truly believe in hearing the other side out. However, if this resolution is passed and enforced, it means that the party of Lincoln has become completely taken over by the Tea Partyites, birthers, and far-right nut cases that have divided us and want to destroy democracy in this great nation. They are no better than the Reid-Pelosi branch of the Democratic Party.

Lets not forget the party of FEAR, that there corner stone!

The Taliban wants party AND ethnic "purity"...so Mr steele is already unqualified...

Like I said, this is great. Let the GOP push aside millions of voters. Maybe some of these ousted members will finally just do what is right for the people and leave these rats to the sinking ship.

Big up's to Scott for perfectly describing the Christain connection with Socialism and Communism. WWJD indeed?

One more nail in the coffen for the GOP . I would guess we will see a new party being developed by the more centrist and moderate republicans. If not, the DEM’s have no excusse in continuing to hold the majority in both houses. Too bad as our system needs realistic and moderate oppossing points of view. This appears to be way too much to ask from this crowd.

It would be nice if a professional news organization like CNN would limit the number of grammatical errors in a story to no more than three.

And the Republican party becomes smaller and smaller. It's funny, because this resolution uses Reagan's name yet Reagan wouldn't have passed it. Wow, these guys are amazing.

"We felt like we needed to send a message that we are the party of hate and hypocrisy!

I'm sure we can fit more people if we make the tent smaller... Welcome to irrelevance.

purity contracts? whoa, creepy. this look more and more like mccarthism, meets mao, with a dash of margaret atwood play "a handmaids tale" thrown in for insanity's sake. i can't believe the repugs so frequently claim obama is a mao fractal when it is really them. i wonder if the purity seal will need to be tattooed on their forearms, or embroidered in red letters
on their clothes.

Is it any wonder these right wingers tanked the economy so badly?

It's amusing too watch the actions of the TEA PARTY and re-action of the Repbulican party. You go 'conservates'. We love to watch you implode! An independent.

This is just more Us versus Them politics.
What have the republicans done yet to solve a problem.
They are interested in being in power – but they have yet to show any talent for doing anything – well, except for getting us into two wars and tanking the economy. They need to show they can work with others. I am tired of the "our way or no way" attitude. Are they the party of dictators?

They forgot to include the 10 Commandments, but no republican would qualify.

Conservative "Values"?? What a bounch of losers; turning their mighty backs on people who don't have healthcare; pretending to think they know who should marry who and half of them run around cheating on their wives; playing the Almighty with abortion when it is none of their business what any women does with their own body; against gun control because the NRA idiots control them, ETC.
Why don't they work with Democrats and debate HealthCare instead of coming up with even more resolutions made to sound like they are unified and stand for something-anything. I live in NY 23 and they all were a Joke!

This may be a politically popular move within the party, but with only 20% of Americans identifying themselves as Republicans, this will only alienate the bases that the Repubs need to reach out to. The White House has publicly commented that a Tim Pawlenty type, a more moderate Repub, would be much more of a threat in reelection than a Palin. We are a center- center right country, not an extreme right or extreme left. Political leaders ignore this fact at their own peril.

Purity oaths? Sounds like these guys are heading down the slippery slope toward fascism. "Are you now or have you ever been a member of ..." Sound familiar? It does if you remember or know about Joe McCarthy and the witch-hunts of the 1950's to find, brand and destroy anyone deemed a communist. The GOP has now officially become Orwell's Thought Police. Toe the party line and don't think for yourself! God help us all if these zealots regain power.

So I guess it's pretty obvious what the RNC is saying–conform or be banished from the party. Wow. Seems a bit senseless to berate Liberals for being "Socialists" when you're pushing totalitarian tactics...

Glenn Beck has a 100 year plan, that if he worked very hard, he could finish in 97 years.

I Understand Reagan was only good on 4 of them..what a polarizing bunch of idiots

Leave it to the boneheads that remain in the GOP to create a Republican litmus test even Reagan couldn't pass. Is it any wonder more and more Americans are rejecting the so-called conservative movement?

Wow! I thought the Democrats were good at shooting themselves in the foot. Republicans have not only shot themselves in the right foot but they have managed to completely amputate their left foot… Say good buy to a good chunk of your voter base that can’t be made up by all the “tea baggers” in this land or any other….

Come on fellow Dems; Let's help them get that message out there.

I hope this gets enacted... it would be the best thing to happen to the democratic party since Sarah Palin's Katie Couric interview. No moderates? Push the party to the far right, allowing the democrats to basically waltz in and pick up the pieces of the electorate forced out of the GOP? Awesome.

I have preached this all along. Oh, I forgot, I accidentally am on CNN

There goes Mr. token again! sir, did you ask for permission from your bosses, Limbaugh, Becks, Hannity and the lady from Alaska "Serah" I hope I got her name right!! she rocks the republican party !

Shame on the GOP. The explanation that this resolution won't handcuff the RNC chairman and demonstrates the broadness of the party is a joke. The language is an obvious attempt to pander to the extreme right wing of the party. The purge is on and there is no tolerance for moderate Republicans.

Are you sure his name isn't Jimmy Boop? Sounds as intelligent as Betty Boop! So now, the RNC wants members to toe the line and adhere to a "pure" ideology? Want to know the last time I read something like that? Germany, 1936, the Nazi Party. They started with ideological purity, then moved to ethinic purity, then religious purity. Toe that line, GOP!

This isn't the party of conservative values, because true conservatives support the Constitution and Bill of Rights, which guarantee our right to freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the freedom AND OBLIGATION to question our government. What this party wants is a group of cookie-cutter politicians that won't rock the boat, and who will stand united no matter how idiotic the party line is. How sad that the party of Lincoln, that split with their parent party because they opposed slavery, are willing to give up the "Big Tent" philosophy that encompassed people of differing views.

Forget about such quaint notions as Representing Your Constituents and bow to the new way: Choose any 7 of these 10 balls to chain to your ankle, Republislave!

This isn't the party of "conservative values" as Pete Ricketts of Nebraska says. It's become the party of intolerance, obstructionism and rght wing extremism.

Good idea! That way the RNC can be assured to only have white gun totin', bible totin' rich folks just like the forefathers envisioned we should be! Bringing back slavery like our forefathers upheld would be optional of course – sort of like keeping abortion optional. Go GOP! You rule (no pun intended).

are you kidding me?

Everybody knows that the RNC really doesn't respect Steele. He's a puppet and pawn, named to the post so that theh party of "NO" could attract more minority members to a party on the verge of going down.

You have just lost me to the Democratic Party. "Purity Resolution", indeed! What a pile of BS! Ronald Reagan would not have received funds from you GOP CLOWNS! Good Luck- you will need luck because your logic and reasoning is EXTREMELY deficient!

They don't want moderates in their party? This is why they can't win elections. No party can win with just extremists supporting them.

My God I am thankful I am a independent. The GOP is Just wrong.

They are out of line on this one.

Heard that Ronald Reagan would not qualify............I'll bet he is spinning in his grave over what these Tea Party nuts have done to the GOP.....................Keep it up ......exclude everyone

Who do they expect to be left in their party after this?

I give the Republican Party credit for finally having announced the bitter truth that we all knew but seldom spoke of. This is the party of old white men and anyone with moderate views need not apply for admission. Thank you for finally acknowledging the hypocrisy of appointing a "fluff figurehead" Chairman for the sole purpose of deflecting criticism of your "pasty white" agenda.

The Republicans are a "broad party" only in the broad swath of voices which are no longer welcome under the GOP umbrella. How pathetic.

I find this quite comedic. My guess is that I'm not the only one. The current slate of extreme conservative republicans, give purity a whole new meaning.

Mr. Steele, I hope your vision for a re-energized Republican party goes well. As a republican, I would have no problem crossing party lines or voting for a third-party if I felt that party would restore our security, our financial stability and our global standing.

Unfortunately, it has become apparent that both parties are more responsive to unseen power brokers, not the american people.

I will not stand for the same old political abuses that, in the past, has deminished our faith in our political system.

As for the GOP, pick your candidates wisely, with forethought and and consideration, because if I go to a third party..... I will not be back!!

Yeah, if you disagree with us 3 or more points, we don't want you.

No gays, no immigrants, no poor people.

Good luck with that.

No, the resolution won't handcuff Steele, it'll just enshrine paranoiac, narrow-minded, self-righteous, bigotry as the official Party platform.

I used to be a Republican, but those days are long gone, as is the true conservatism the Republican Party once professed. It's too bad the neo-cons had to come along and ruin it for the rest of us.

So a Republican can't get one cent of help from the RNC unless he/she proves that he/she is a right wing nutjob, a fear monger, a hate monger and no working brain cells?

How does that work, exactly?

i love the idea of the republican party being willing to only sponsor hard-core, right wing fanatics.. the further to the right they go with their candidates, the less palatable they'll be to the average voter in swing districts.. yeah, the freaks in kansas, and oklahoma and alabama will keep voting republican, but, the republican party will lose even more representation in districts with reasonably discerning voters, who wouldn't dream of putting into office wackos like palin and bachman and steve king and boehner.

Dede Scozzafava was not a moderate republican. She was not even a republicam. She was a democrat...and a liberal one at that.

Had Hoffman been in the race since the beginning he would have won.

RNC has to make sure that people are running as Republicans and not RINO's. Good for them.

The Party of 'NO' must feel they are not saying no strong enough. They need to single out those who even consider agreeing with the dems

Keith Olbermann pointed out that the purity resolution criteria would exclude Ronald Reagan from the Republican Party.

That simply amounts to the political party requiring the candidate hold allegiance to the party, and not the people.

That is a good way to lose an election.

Vote for Steele – He is made of Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel

While he is at it, could he explain how the republican party went from a dignified (altho one a lot of Americans disagreed with) intelligent bunch of people to the absolutely, bunch of far out, stupid and ignorant and greedy bunch they are today.

People used to hold the republican party with respect, I hate to say what they hold them with today. They really are a bunch of used tea bags.

Wow. What a great move by the GOP. Using the purity doctrine they can now advance with Germany 1930's swiftness and promote their doctrine of enriching the rich, corrupting true Christianity, using the ignorant and furtheringtrue goals of the Party of the Selfish.

Palinistas and Rovians Unite!

No suprise here.

"What it says is that we are a broad party, that we understand people are not going to agree with us on every issue."

Our party is so broad that if someone disagrees with our ten point manifesto, we refuse financial support. Definitely the way to build a broad based party. Where do they find these morons? Oh right, Indiana and Nebraska, the bastions of independent thought!

this just shows what a hate group the GOP are and a uncle TOM michael steele really are.when a group of men and women has to kiss the rear of these men to get money then there not much to them either

So anyone with an above room temperature IQ will be denied RNC funds? Pure stupidity.

What a great name "purity" is for the Republican Party.

Who are the 3 highest elected officials still in office who have admitted to being unfaithful?

Republican Senator David Vitter.
Republican Senator John Ensign.
Republican Governor Mark Sanford.

The definition of a true Christian is a soul in a body who follows the example of Jesus Christ and his bodily life here on Earth. With a fair reading of the New Testament, I have a very hard time understanding how so many American Christians actually do not see that socialism or even communism is actually much much more Christian than capitalism. Beware the false prophets that can mislead so many. What profits a man if his body gains the whole world, but loses his soul? Wake up America, before it's too late. Jesus is watching and his judgment will shine a bright light on the "Christian" hypocriscy that he hates so much. Repent, overcome your fear of bodily death, love everybody equally, work to lift everybody up and not just yourself or your family, and you shall be set free. God be with you all!

Finally! A government that's for corporate America and not good-for-nothing freeloaders who can't even afford insurance.

It is such a joke that a large portion of this blood oath invokes the name of Ronald Reagan when he would not pass the test. He would be considered a RINO.

Only one thing pure with the RNC. Pure Crap

Just when I thought the Democrats were shooting themselves in the foot, the Republicans came in and stuck their foot in the way so they could get it first. This is the next step toward the Republicans becoming a regional party.

Can we be honest here for a second, I mean brutally honest and forthright......

Would Micheal Steele be in his current role within the Republican Party if Barrack Obama lost the election......?

Better yet, I would love to put this question to Micheal Steele, I mean this is a political party that tried to Legitamize "Joe the Plumber", and are now doing it with Sarah Palin...

This is also the political party that gave us slogans like "Country First", even went more looney is naming a bus "The Straight Talk Express", I mean who in there right mind would want to support this kind of game playing........?

PALIN for President in 2012!!!

OK, Mr. Ricketts. I read your resolution. You must be smoking some serious wacky-baccy if you think that your resolution offers much in the way of ideological wiggle room for Republicans. The resolution is pretty much a "my-way-or-the-highway" arch-conservative screed. Seven out of ten to pass the test? Good luck with the shrinking size of your tent with THOSE kind of guidelines. Sure, signers-on will avoid criticisim from the right wing of the party just as you wish, but the right-wingers will be the only ones left. Be careful what you wish for.

For the record, I'm a centrist NOT disposed to summarily dismissing conservative arguments. In fact, I WANT to consider them, just like I want to consider progressive arguments. But Ricketts et al obviously are writing me and other centrists right off. If that's what they want . . .

Recently totally biased and irrational people found fault with the Democratic Senator who withheld her vote while she bargained with Sen Reid for millions in Medicare Aid funds. The trouble with that is that it faults the Democratic Rep for fighting for her constituents and ignores that the Republicans mostly fail to do that and instead are pushed, intimidated and coerced to fall in line behind their Party's positions, whether of value to their constituents or not, and depend on deceptive rhetoric to manipulate public opinion. Rationalizations like that are done to avoid facing the truth and then simply to allow for believing and supporting predetermined positions. Regardless of which party, that is disgusting and is why the politicians can get away with being irresponsible. Of course, we can't ever expect more from Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and so on.

1 more nail in the republican party coffin form the right wing nuts.

Republican "values" suck.

OH ! Just the words "Purity Resolution" is a major insult to any American. Purity Resolution Test better make all republicans angry.

Sounds like they found a loop hole to discriminate against their OWN. How sad. Oh, I forgot; if you are not with us you are against us.. LMAO

Those Republicans are so smart. What could go wrong?

Sounds like a party without an identity.

This is almost cartoonish!

He needs to be silenced!

I agree. Repubs should do everything they can to limit the size and scope of their party. 20% and shrinking, sounds good to me.

Nothing like the Big Tent policy of the American Taliban......

"which was ultimately won by Democrat Bill Owens...."
I think this ideological pogrom within the Republican Party is a great idea. Even the Republicans who don't personally disgust me with their hypocrisy and rantings usually vote in favor of their bad policy. And we'll win lots more elections!

Purity huh? Where's the headquarters? Hayden Lake, Idaho? or 1933 Berlin? Sounds like either skinheads or the "Great" Aryan race Hilter envisioned. Or, they're just run of the mill republicans.

Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini could not have said it better. Thank you RNC for revealing yourselves.

So, why do Republicans need politicians at all? Couldn't they just have their list of conservative viewpoints, and have votes placed accordingly?

Or better yet, how about a Conservative robot?

This just goes to show you that conservatives really don't believe in evolution, and things should never change.

the thugs still have not learned their lesson. people don't want the fanatic, lunatic right-wingers running the goverment. did they not receive the message last year and this years ny-23 and ca-10.

Good. I hope the conservatives and republicans split. That will insure that neither runs anything for decades. Maybe then we can undo the damage from 30 years of trickle down free market nonsense (which destroyed the middle class) and ancient superstition about a big invisible man in the sky (do you believe in the tooth fairy as well?) Good riddance to them. Have a nice day!

The GOP is reaping what it had sown 30 years ago when they courted the evangelical crowd. It's like watching a slowly sinking ship, and no one is throwing any life ropes to those on board.

Force the poor to bear unwanted children and then deny them access to health care. Is it any wonder that the Christian right insists on having 'In God We Trust' on our coinage?~

As a former republican, I just cannot understand the apparent mistakes my old party continues to make. The takeaway they had from the NY-23 race is that they weren't conservative enough?

.....momentary bafflement....

No matter what the result of anything, they take that as the message I guess.

If you have to explain it, you missed the mark.

Is that all the Republican Party can do? Issue decrees and statementsYou guys broke it, now quit talking and fix it!

this reminds me of Hitler's Germany purity tests, etc pretty soon they will only want blue eyed blonds! and they try to portray Obama as Hitler – Ta!

Hehe. Limiting the people in your party. This is a great move... for the Democrats. ^_^

Keep up the good work!

I thought we lived in America where we have the right to choose.

Why do republicans have the right to tell people what makes a good American ? Why would anyone want to be a republican if they are always telling you what to think and to believe in ?

Democrats believe in all those things too but if you choose not to, we don't lable you un-American or un-qualified to be in any political party.

This is silly. Purity laws? If 2006 and 2008 taught us anything, it was that the far right folks are not in a position to lead. Just like the fringe left folks will bring the GOP roaring back in coming years, we can't let ourselves initiate another pendulum swing by going too far to the right.

Purity.....
i think steele will be gone in less than 3 months.

It wasn't until Democrats realized they had to move towards the center that they began winning elections. The Republicans will have to learn this same lesson. Until then, they can sit in their small, self-absorbed, and self-righteous corner and feel good and pure as they see election after election go down the tubes. It's fun to watch but sad to see this Grand Ole Party highjacked by an ideological fanaticism akin to Stalinism. Let the purges begin.

The GOP keeps comparing Obama's plans and policies to that of Adolf Hitlers and then they go and do something like this? A "purity" resolution. Now I know that this isn't as extreme as Hitlers movement, but the hypocrisy is almost laughable. The GOP is becoming a joke. They are going to single themselves out even further by ignoring members of their own party that aren't as insane and non-partisan? Between this and Sarah Palin, it sounds like the GOP is trying really hard to screw themselves over when it comes to the next election.

As a Republican this ticks me off a bit, I understand the need for what happened in NEW YORK to never happen again, but why put this out there it will just open you to ridicule.

The ONLY person I agree with a 100% of the time is me, but don't handcuff yourself too much.

Sorry Obamabots, the facts are that we are a center RIGHT Country and there are more Moderate thinkers that lean REPUBLICAN, but you will find that out next year BIG TIME.

CNN, how about a story on the polls that show REGULAR folks against Obambicare 56 to 38 percent or a story about how the lying corrupt liberals are being exposed in ClimateGate?

Nah, keep up with the Palin non-stories, the sheep care more about that.

OK GOP, and this from a GOP member, 100 yrs ago if a woman wore a swimsuit (costume) that was 3" above the ankle it was indecent exposure. Times and standards of what society considers acceptable change. Either a political party, like any other entity, adapts and changes, or it will perish. Democrats have boxed themselves in as the party of welfare, entitlement, taxes, and Hollywood make-believe. Capitalize on that. The usual moral preaching rhetoric is falling on deaf ears, even within the GOP. If you have any hope of revival and survival, you have to catch up with the times.

Thank goodness that the conservative repugs are not the majority of this country and will never be.
They are sooooooooooo out of touch with the citizenship that it's laughable.
Hawaii in January. There's a tough trip to make.
Better yet, why not Wyoming or Montana where it's cold and try doing it without heat like a LOT of Americans will live this winter.

Conservatives like to claim liberals are "socialists" or "commies" or even "nazis", completely without evidence, but seriously... what does a party purge remind most of us about?

Stupid Stupid Stupid..........Forget handcuffs, these are chains. How much control is enough for the GOP.

The only purpose of this resolution is to force anyone that doesn't agree with the worst among them out of the party. I hope it works and even more people leave the party to become Democrats or Independents.

Good deal. If the GOP whackos start requiring a person to believe exactly what the party leaders believe to be able to run as a Republican, then the moderate conservatives will have to form another party. Maybe the more moderate Dems can join them, and the middle-of-the-road people's party can be born.

Yes, a "broad party" that MUST ADHERE to seven of ten things or your out.

Just keep digging GOP you'll find gold somewhere in that hole.

small minded idiots !!

Translation: from now on you can only be a republican if you mindlessly parrot Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, or Dick Cheney, without question or thought. Not that any of it is real conservatism. Those guys flip-flop constantly. But you don't need to be consistent to LOOK consistent. You only need to maintain the illusion by opposing whatever the democrats do.
Food for thought: if you constantly oppose the party that you also accuse of constantly flip-flopping, you need to be a flip-flopper yourself!

I thought the goal of you guys was to "expand" your party's rearch. Just to let you know, President Reagan hosted the first openly gay sleepover at the white house, after doing some research. He signed a gun control proposition in California. He also did "something" with propostion 6 in California back in his presidency. So that means at the very most, he would get a 7 out of 10, lower than the 8 out of 10 to pass. If you guys go through with this, you will become as significant as the whigs. What happened to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt? Just to let you know, Teddy Roosevelt was the one to first to propos the idea of a nationalized healthcare system (single payer non profit). If he were alive now, would you guys call him a socialist?

Wow, sounds just like what Hitler did, doesn't it? How can ANYONE support a party that wants to sanitize it's members. Before too long, they'll want to sanitize YOU!

cons ervatives = scum

It should be noted that of the 10 requirements on this list, Reagan would have failed 4 of them.

And yes, this is a way to purge any moderates and non-ultra conservatives from the party

Sounds an aqful lot like a purge of normal people, replaced by radical ideologues in the mold of Sarah Palin etc.

I hope that there is an enormous backlash against these right-wing nutjobs, not only in the Republican Party, but throughout the nation.

I can't believe that Americans (out of their supposed frustration or open dislike for President Obama), would turn to these people.

The country is doomed if these people (like it or not very similar in tactics to the early Nazi Party, the early Bolsheviks before the overthrow of the Czar, the hardliners in Iran, and the Taliban) ever get back in control (the Congress, Senate, or worse still, the Presidency with a person like George W. Bush, or even Palin).

Republicans are digging their own grave to please their fringe elements... They are like a freight train barreling downhill to their own destruction...
You go, guys!

Can we please get a third and or fourth party in this country. I'm tired of all these idiots

On the plus side, this 'purity' movement would make republicans more honest, instead of the spineless lying cowards the are now. They SHOULD openly declare 'we are intolerant towards those who are different, we do NOT have pity for those less fortunate, and we worship the almighty dollar.' Instead right now they go back and forth, lying about being 'inclusive' and 'tolerant' only to turn around next day and apologize to Rush Limbaugh for looking weak.

The further radicalization of the Republican Party continues......

Beware of true believers......

By the way CNN, where is the "Climategate" story?

This has got to be the boldest and most isolating decree I have ever heard come out of the Republican Party. Do you mean to tell me that the Republicans want to convey that there is no room for moderates in their party??!?!? This is outrageous and shows where their party is going. Either you are a far right conservative or you are not a part of the Republican Party. How dare they state we will not support all Republican candidates, but only the far fight conservatives?!?!?! They will lose all moderate and independent vote just to cater to these Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh, Hannity Colmes, Glenn Beck followers.

And this is why I left the Republican Party.

Any and ALL Republican resolutions to stem the hundreds of millions of dollars that Big Oil, Big Pharma and huge Defense sub-contrators pour into the Republican re-election coffers is doomed to utter and complete failure.

The Republican party would have to completely cast off its master's puppet strings, and from the ground up, re-invent itself. That is entirely unlikely if not impossible for a organization that is ripe with gross corruption and lack of moral and ethical principles.

Purity shmurity...these guys don't have a clue either way.

That certainly doesn't sound like dividing the country, being resistant to change and new ideas or being pig-headed at all!

mike steele may be the biggest joke of the political year. that says somethiung knowing palin is shooting her mouth at the same time

And just what would those "conservative values" include? George Bush style economics and David Vitter style morality perhaps??

The GOP has become worse then the Taliban. "Purity", right up there with "White, Male, Rich, Christian" only rules (and those rules are probably in there too).

What a pathetic lot of morons the GOP has become.

What idiocy. Now the only republicans worthy of receiving $ are right wing conservative ideologues. That party is increasingly being so radicalized that they truly deserve the name of American Taliban.

I don't have a problem with moderate voices but left leaning liberals pretending to be moderates or conservatives makes me very annoyed, we need to thin out the quislings.

Right, the GOP is SO broad that if you don't agree with these 10 "commandments" then you can't be one. Joe McCarthy would be so proud.

It would be wonderful if the people writing these articles could read and speak english. I counted more that 15 grammer errors in this brief article. I also counted a dozen errors in sentence structure.
I stopped reading the article because of the poor writing.
Maybe our education system isn't as good as the government wants us to think it is.

Steele, you token tool, now they're taking you're mojo.

What up with that?

Lets see now...............You ran a "conservitive" Republican candidate against a "moderate" Republican candidate And a Democratic candidate to win a Congressional seat that the Republicans dominated and held since the days of the Civil War and yet LOST THAT SEAT TO THE DEMOCRAT!!! Now your train of thought leads you to believe that the American people want a more "consevitive" GOP?........Your guy lost morons!!!! Are you really that stupid???WOW!!!!!!!

So sad. We're becoming a society of exclusion instead of inclusion. We're becoming a nation divided against itself. And this will be our end.

If they are a broad and open party, then why do they need these narrow statements. I don't know if Reagan could have gotten into this group. I know that he sponored (or authorized) illegal immigrant amnesty. I know that the Republicans need to show what they are made of, but this could shrink them.

So instead of offering solutions for the economy, healthcare, unemployment or a divide nation, we get a resolution of republican purity...hahaha...

We now have a threshold for compatibility. If 70% of your views are the same as mine, we are compatible.

And to think I could have sailed through life without knowing the numeric compatibility threshold. Thank you Republican Party.

"Ricketts disagreed with the suggestion that the measure is an attempt to purge moderate voices from the GOP." HAH. That is exactly what will happen. I'm glad. Keep alienating the sane voices in your party and further marginalizing yourselves in this path to destruction.

Well, if the party of NOthing believes it is that important to cater to the tea baggers, it is just additional proof of how they have lost sight of
what politicians are supposed to do and stand for. Of course, birds of a feather flock together, so radicals, hypocrits, less intelligent, fear mongerers, liars, ignore your fellow men and women people must stick together as they are, thankfully, the minority in our country.
They are totally self destructing,

The memo hasn't gotten to Steele yet.......

The GOP is letting everyone know they only want the extremist right wing nut jobs in their party. The moderate conservatives and Independents are not welcome. That is the signal they are sending out with this ridiculous resolution.

So the resolution is based on a strategy that got a Democrat elected?

Works for me!

P.S. Sarah SCARES me!! Me so scared!!

Ethnic cleansing, GOP-style. Reminds me of the "purity of essence" soliloquy in Dr. Strangelove.

If this is so, why isn't Michael Steele himself making this statement or is he busy making his exit speech.

they need to put all the right wing and left wing nuts in a cage and let them have at each other,,,,,

The Republicans like to call Obama a Marxist, but look at which political party is conducting a purge. Apparently, being anything but a fanatic or a wide-eyed ideologue now disqualifies you from what used to be the party of Lincoln–who, along with T. Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan, must surely be turning over in his grave.

Hey Michael...move on out...I think Castellanos will be your replacement.

The Talibangelical right wing are going to disenfranchise and isolate many republicans. There will be a growing independent party.

Dictators..communist fools...

That hammering sound that you hear is yet another nail being driven into the GOP coffin as they write off whole sections of the country.