RNC members draft new ‘socialist’ resolution
Washington (CNN) – Conservative members of the Republican National Committee are circulating a new resolution that calls on party members to stand up to President Obama’s “socialist” agenda and would prohibit RNC funds from going to GOP candidates who disagree with elements of a proposed ten plank ideological platform.
The language of the proposal is still being tweaked ahead of January’s RNC Winter Meeting in Hawaii, where it could be submitted for a vote before the full committee.
Jim Bopp, Jr., an RNC committee member from Indiana and the chief sponsor of the resolution, said the goal of the resolution is to “re-establish the party’s conservative bona fides.”
“This would establish standards for candidates and hold them accountable to RNC’s conservative platform,” he told CNN. “We are open to diverse views, but you do have to agree with us most of the time.”
Bopp said such standards would insulate RNC chairman Michael Steele from the kind of conservative criticism he faced last month for supporting a moderate Republican, Dede Scozzafava, in the special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district.
“I think he has been unjustly criticized for supporting the Republican candidate in New York,” Bopp said of Steele, whom he opposed during the chairman’s race last Winter. “This resolution will establish standards so that he wont won’t feel obligated to support every Republican and not feel criticized.”
RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho had no comment on the resolution.
“The deadline for submitting Resolutions for the RNC Winter Meeting is more than 30 days away,” Gitcho said in an e-mail.
“At this point, we do not what resolutions will be submitted nor what the final language of any resolution ultimately submitted may be.”
If approved in its current form, the resolution would be the second RNC document this year to formally accuse the Obama administration of pushing socialist policies. The committee approved a resolution in May calling on Democrats to “stop pushing our country toward socialism.”
Source:politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
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