HomeTagged ‘Ron Paul’
Dec 2, 2009
In Debate
Proposed 10-point purity test for Republican candidates
RNC Committeeman Jim Bopp, Jr. has proposed what many are calling a “purity test” for Republican candidates. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Thomas Frank calls it “a ten-point test that Ronald Reagan would flunk.”
Here is the text of the resolution below, courtesy MSNBC.com. You can read what Ron Paul thinks of it here. Interestingly, in [...]
Feb 28, 2009
In Debate
Return of the conservative populists?
David Sirota, writing in Salon, muses that Republicans could revive their fortunes if they embrace populism, as Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul did during the primary campaign, calling Wall Street tycoons “criminals.”
Of course, at some point such rhetoric would need to be backed up by real policy proposals. And it’s safe to say that Republicans [...]