According to an article on FrankSeabrook.com The Republican National Committee is considering a "Conservative Litmus Test" for candidates. I've read the resolution, and I have some comments to make, which I pray will open some eyes as to the problem in America. While I think it good to instill more conservative values in the Republican Party, some of the turncoats in congress currently, and CD23 having been examples of the need for this, I have to say I am concerned with the "litmus test". It reads as follows,

Proposed RNC Resolution on Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed that the Republican Party should support and espouse conservative principles and public policies; and

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan also believed the Republican Party should welcome those with diverse views; and

WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed, as a result, that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, not his opponent; and

WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies and Republican solidarity in opposition to Obama’s socialist agenda is necessary to preserve the security of our country, our economic and political freedoms, and our way of life; and

WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies is necessary to restore the trust of the American people in the Republican Party and to lead to Republican electoral victories; and

WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee shares President Ronald Reagan’s belief that the Republican Party should espouse conservative principles and public policies and welcome persons of diverse views; and

WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee desires to implement President Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates; and

WHEREAS, in addition to supporting candidates, the Republican National Committee provides financial support for Republican state and local parties for party building and federal election activities, which benefits all candidates and is not affected by this resolution; and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, which the Republican National Committee expects its public officials and candidates to support:

(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; and be further

RESOLVED, that a candidate who disagrees with three or more of the above stated public policy position of the Republican National Committee, as identified by the voting record, public statements and/or signed questionnaire of the candidate, shall not be eligible for financial support and endorsement by the Republican National Committee; and be further

RESOLVED, that upon the approval of this resolution the Republican National Committee shall deliver a copy of this resolution to each of Republican members of Congress, all Republican candidates for Congress, as they become known, and to each Republican state and territorial party office.

Some people just don't get it... Republicans didn't lose congress and the white house because people wanted Cap & Trade and Socialized Medicine. Republicans lost control of the government because they tried to exercise too much control over the people! They lost control of the government, because they tried to exercise too much control abroad! They lost control because they oversaw an economic collapse, while they were too busy fighting wars, internet gambling, and homosexuals to address the fundamental flaws in our monetary system!

A Republican MUST BE in favor of further expanding undeclared wars in nations that have already been conquered?

A Republican MUST BE in favor of further provoking conflict with already hostile nations, even as we wage two difficult wars?

A Republican MUST BE in favor of violating Article 4 Sections 1 and 2 of the Constitution of the United States by standing for DOMA?

Must a Republican be in favor of tracking down, rounding up, and deporting 12-30 Million people, or should he just be in favor of leaving the illegal immigration problem unchecked? Or should he use commons sense and support a guest worker program?  Worse than this, I see opposition to amnesty, but no mention of secure borders!

The Constitution of the United States of America is the litmus test. The current Republican Health Care Plans do not reflect these values. DOMA Does not reflect these values. Undeclared Wars do not reflect these values!

To the extent Conservatives and the GOP seek smaller government, they will find friends in the growing Liberty Movement, unless of course, they want it only to be smaller than the Democrats.

How long will the GOP call itself the party of smaller, limited government while it continues to fund and expand unconstitutional programs like NASA, US Foreign Aid, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Education, and so many others that construct the vast majority of the federal budget?

How long will the GOP allow it's members to support the Patriot Act, domestic portions of FISA, Rendition, REAL ID and the National ID Card, secret "terrorist" watch lists that now may cover tea partiers as right wing extremists, the suspension of Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus?

A Message to the GOP, and Conservatives, do not neglect your Libertarian allies! We stood by you in the tea party movement, and we want to work together to stop the bombardment of socialist legislation currently assaulting our freedom, but we won't let YOU continue to assault our freedom either, and we can split votes too!

I've got a litmus test of my own for all congressional candidates, a Constitutional one, and I challenge my opponents to take it.

WHEREAS, The United States Federal Government was not meant by the founders to be a direct influence on the lives of the American People; and

WHEREAS, The United States Federal Government has only those powers delegated to it by specific enumerations within the Constitution of the United States of America; and

WHEREAS, The United States Federal Government has violated the Supreme Law of The Land by usurping powers not delegated to it time and again, at all branches, and in all parties; and

WHEREAS, Said usurpations of power have served to undermine the authority of the state governments, and even worse, been a detriment to the lives, liberty, and property of the people within the states;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND The United States Federal Government get back in it's Constitutional Box, get out of our pockets, off of our backs, off of our telephones, and out of our homes.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That WE THE PEOPLE, recognize our elected officials cannot abide by the constitution if they do not understand it, and therefore WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND our elected Federal Officials agree to the following,

(1) I have read and understand Federalist Paper #45, in which James Madison Wrote "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State. "

(2) I have read and understand the 10th Article of Amendment which reads "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

(3) I understand and fully recognize that the term "general welfare" in Article 1 Section 8 Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States extends only to the enumerated powers relating to it, as said by James Madison in a letter to James Robertson “With respect to the two words ‘general welfare’, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."

(4) I fully recognize, that "To regulate Commerce... among the several States..." in Article 1 Section 8 Clause 3 does not mean to make laws and taxes regarding all things which may potentially effect interstate commerce, but rather, "to make regular" by preventing the states from obstructing commerce by way of taxes of their own, as described by James Madison in Federalist Paper #42 "A very material object of this power was the relief of the States which import and export through other States, from the improper contributions levied on them by the latter. Were these at liberty to regulate the trade between State and State, it must be foreseen that ways would be found out, to load the articles of import and export, during the passage through their jurisdiction, with duties which would fall on the makers of the latter, and the consumers of the former." As well as in Article 1 Section 10 Clause 2 of the Constitution of the United States "No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws:"

(5) I understand that all dollars are loaned into existence at interest by the private federal reserve bank for the profit of unelected persons, and are backed by nothing at all. That this causes our country to remain in perpetual debt and that this is not sound monetary policy, was in no small part the cause of our current economic crisis, and in order for prosperity to exist in America, monetary reform is necessary, and unelected persons causing inflation for their own profit is taxation without representation, which was one of the major causes for the Revolutionary War.

(6) I have read the Constitution from Preamble to the 27th Article of Amendment, and nowhere in it can I find the words space program, astronaut, moon, or planet. I have not found the words medicine, drug, doctor, health, or insurance. I have not found the words school, education, teacher, or curriculum. I have not found the words energy, environment, carbon, fish, animal, plant, species, water, or delta smelt. I have not found the words crime, gamble, electronic, hate, traffic, transportation, phone, television, communication, marriage, homosexual, polygamy or license. I recognize that because these words appear nowhere within the constitution I have no Constitutional Authority under which to regulate such things, and I will vote NAY on any effort to make such regulations, and AYE on any effort to repeal such regulations, until such time as three fourths of the state legislatures see fit to amend the constitution in accordance with Article 5 of the Constitution of the United States of America, to turn over such authority to the office which I seek.

(7) I understand that the 16th Amendment (Income Tax) was not meant to repeal the 13th Amendment (Prohibition of Slavery)

(8) I recognize that what little power I do have under the Constitution of the United States of America should be used to promote Freedom, Peace, and Prosperity.

(9) I recognize that upon my being elected I will swear a solemn oath, that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that this oath is not ceremonial in nature, but a binding legal agreement, which, if violated, would constitute perjury and treason, for which I could, should, and expect to be punished severely for, in a manner to be prescribed by law.

BE IT RESOLVED, that anyone who cannot agree to ALL OF these 9 terms has no business running for office in ANY POLITICAL PARTY, or as an independent; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that where persons who cannot agree to ALL OF these 9 terms are running for office, it is the DUTY of all men who love their country to oppose them with every resource available to them, win or lose.