Testy Republicans
By now you’ve surely heard about the GOP’s proposed conservative “purity test,” a ten-point litmus test advocated by James Bopp Jr. and others to weed out party “undesirables.”
Under this test (Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates), if you’re not right-wing enough to pass muster on at least eight of ten position points, you forfeit RNC support.
How ironic and amusing that Ronald Reagan, the “purity test’s” namesake, couldn’t come close to passing it.
And that brings me to my latest double limerick:
Testy Republicans
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Some Republicans want to ensure
That all of its members are pure:
Wrong on 3 of 10 planks?
Then it’s “Sorry, no thanks,”
Cuz you’re lacking in wingnut allure.
So how odd that their “God” would not pass
This purity test — what a gas!
Reagan’s record is clear:
He would fail, were he here.
Yet he’s Prez nonpareil, under grass.
Tags: Election Humor, GOP Humor, Irony, James Bopp, Purity Test, RNC, Ronald Reagan, Wingnuts
It used to be Saint Ronnie. Now Reagan has replaced Christ as God of the Rightwingnuts. I would not put too much faith in a man who I consider is one of the worst presidents in U.S. history.
Marcy Mitchell, you’ve reminded me that several years ago I wrote a song parody called St. Reagan’s Song.
It occurs to me that “Testy Republicans” works as the subject of a double-dactyl:
Higgledy piggledy,
Testy Republicans,
Finding their test, of a load, one brick shy,
Even St. Reagan is
Incontrovertibly
Failing the test. (Here’s a hint, Ron: just lie.)
Haha! Works for me, Steve!
Am I the only one who’s noticed that Mr. Bopp shares a name with the Hale-Bopp Comet which inspired the Heaven’s Gate loonies?
“It would be irresponsible not to speculate.”
Ha! I knew the name Bopp sounded vaguely familiar.
Mad, I took the purity test. Got 13 wrong, out of a possible 10. Go figure. — Horace
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