{"id":2213,"date":"2010-10-05T15:19:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T22:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/all-litmus-tests-are-not-created-equal\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T15:19:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T22:19:17","slug":"all-litmus-tests-are-not-created-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/all-litmus-tests-are-not-created-equal\/","title":{"rendered":"all litmus tests are not created equal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0RE:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Call For The Immediate Resignation of All Republican Officials Openly Supporting 3rd Party ACP Candidate Tancredo<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/cindy-lyons\/call-for-the-immediate-resignation-of-all-republican-officials-openly-supporting\/441314433809\">by Cindy Lyons<\/a> on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 7:54pm<\/p>\n<p>I am calling for the immediate resignation of ALL Republican elected officials and party people who are caught openly defying state GOP party by-laws. It is shameful for a liberal reporter to expose so well what was lying under neath all along. When a Republican supports a party not their own they are called RINO: Republican In Name Only under the truest of circumstances. I call for all GOP Party Chairs to enforce this rule.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Lyons<br \/>\nPatriot<br \/>\n9-12 member<br \/>\nRepublican Conservative<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It took a systemic failure of the Republican caucus system for a public call to go out to purge the party of its RINO&#8217;s.\u00a0 But RINO&#8217;s have been comfortably ensconced in Republican Central Committees for years.\u00a0 Why must they suddenly be purged?<\/p>\n<p>Because Maes zealots need someone to blame for the failure of the caucus system that they perpetrated.\u00a0 They abused the caucus apparatus, they screwed it up royally, and now they have bogeyman in the form of Tancredo supporters to blame.<\/p>\n<p>The caucus system was never a good solution; it&#8217;s thoroughly corrupt and has been for a long time.\u00a0 But Republicans have an opportunity to really fix something if they have the courage that their professed patriotism and allegiance to conservatism implies.<\/p>\n<p>Expelling RINO&#8217;s, even if they could do it which they can&#8217;t, will only further cement the caucus problem in place.\u00a0 So, do Republicans have the courage of introspection to analyze themselves and the conduct of their caucus process?\u00a0 Can they admit that the caucus system is the product of a small minority of self-appointed apparatchiks who convince themselves over time that they are representatives of the people at large, and that this bunch blew it big time?<\/p>\n<p>This would be a great opportunity for Republicans to man up, take responsibility for their mistakes, and fix this broken corrupt caucus process.<\/p>\n<p>The tenor of the Elbert County Tea Party however, full of self-righteous indignation, seems to be running away from these real growth opportunities as fast as they can.\u00a0 Electing the leftist opposition will be their legacy, they&#8217;ll never admit it, and they&#8217;ll go on nursing their coffee clatch political club for the rest of their days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0RE: Call For The Immediate Resignation of All Republican Officials Openly Supporting 3rd Party ACP Candidate Tancredo by Cindy Lyons on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 7:54pm I am calling for the immediate resignation of ALL Republican elected officials and party people who are caught openly defying state GOP party by-laws. 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