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To: gear
Well here I am to respond. I am a Republican who is also a delegate to the GOP TX convention in Dallas this weekend. I am precinct secretary and am presently working for John Cornyn and my congressional candidate. I am bilingual and will be working in the Hispanic neighborhoods to widen the tent of the GOP. The analogy about some churches may be somewhat a stretch but I have been in those types of churches and they tend to be dogmatic. That being said, this loyalty test is rediculous and will make our jobs more difficult when trying to broaden our party base. I ran into some of these people at our Senatorial convention and I am telling you they were a real turn off.
48 posted on 06/04/2002 9:24:10 AM PDT by lone star annie
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To: lone star annie
The issue is; what do you mean by "inclusive"? Is the GOP now "exclusive"? Is there a sign outside the tent with "No Minorities/Women/Homosexuals/Atheists Allowed"? NO. And it annoys me no end to find a Republican repeating that same media/Democrat slur.

Have you noticed that we're told that the GOP is "exclusive" on abortion yet we have ten times more pro-choice politicians elected than the Democrats have pro-life politicians? We're told that because the GOP core is against bilingual education we're anti-Hispanic while ignoring the fact that the majority of Hispanics are against bilingual education as well.

There are so many other things and I could go on but the point is that while anti-RINOs want to remove the less than loyal Party members I seriously doubt they want to remove all dissenters from the platform. But that doesn't mean there are NO basic beliefs that ALL Republicans should agree on.

Make no mistake, the people complaining about the party not being "inclusive enough" or "moderate enough" in the media are not friends of the GOP and they should be given no credibility by any Republican. What they really want is for Republicans to abandon their basic principles; whether it be low taxes, our dedication to a color blind society, our dedication to all the articles (including the Second Amendment) in the Constitution, our belief in the free-market, our belief in limited government, our belief that good science, not emotionalism, should guide environmental policy, our belief in strong national defenses and our insistence on individual rights and responsibility.

There's no point in having a tent if it is so inclusive that it doesn't stand for anything anymore. Imagine this; "Republicans For High Taxes" ... ugh!

53 posted on 06/04/2002 9:47:51 AM PDT by MAKnight
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