The Republican Me

I’ve always considered myself more little “l” libertarian than anything else. But take a look at these ten items.

(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;

This list is from an RNC resolution called “Proposed RNC Resolution on Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates”. MSNBC is asking if this is a purity test for GOP candidates. I think purity is a poor word choice. If you read the comments it got the desired effect though. Another example of unbiased journalism…

Anyway, I agree with 9 of the 10. The one I don’t agree with is not because I support the other view but because the feds shouldn’t have a say one way or the other.