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Can the RNC save the GOP from irrelevance?
A long-time reader forwarded the following email this evening and one hopes that this is a sign that the Republicans finally get it (emphasis below is mine).
Republican and Conservative Leaders and Activists:
At its Winter Meeting last week, the Republican National Committee adopted an important and historic resolution “concerning party support for candidates.” Sponsored by Bill Crocker of Texas, the unanimously-adopted resolution calls on all Republican Party leaders “to carefully screen” all candidates and to “determine that they wholeheartedly support the core principles and positions of the Republican Party as expressed in the Platform” and urges that “no support, financial or otherwise, be given to candidates who clearly do not support the core principles and positions of the Republican Party as expressed in the Platform.” The text of the resolution can be found here:
RNC resolution concerning party support of candidates – - POLITICO.com
This is the first time that the RNC has taken steps to ensure that Republican candidates are faithful to the Republican Platform. It empowers the RNC Chairman to consider the positions of candidates on issues and to deny funding to those candidates who are clearly out of the mainstream of our Party. As Mr Crocker said after the resolution’s adoption: “No more Scozzafavas, please. No more Specters, please. No more Chafees, please.”
State and local Republican parties, the National Republican Congressional Committee and National Republican Senatorial Committee are independent organizations and the resolution is not binding on them. The RNC, however, is calling all Republican leaders to follow the RNC lead. After all, what each of us does effects everyone.
With the adoption of the Platform Fidelity Resolution, I withdrew from consideration the Reagan Resolution and the Accountability Resolution, since the Platform Fidelity Resolution accomplish[es] our goal of demonstrating that this party is serious about standing for our principles, so that disaffected conservatives, such as tea party members, will be comfortable working with us in defense of freedom, and gained widespread support. See RNC Passes Compromise On ‘Purity’ Resolutions | TPMDC For additional accounts of this historic action by the RNC see the Washington Times
GOP leaders adopt litmus test of values for candidates – Washington Times and the AP
As one of the disaffected former Republicans, I hope this ushers in a new commitment to the values of limited government and traditional social values. Now let us hope that the NRCC and NRSC will follow suit and those who are subsequently elected govern according to those traditional principles. I give kudos to the RNC leadership for this resolution.
