{"id":2125,"date":"2009-11-30T00:32:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2009-11-30T00:32:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:32:25","slug":"gop-purity-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/11\/30\/gop-purity-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Testy Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now you’ve surely heard about the GOP’s proposed conservative “purity test,”<\/a> a ten-point litmus test advocated by James Bopp Jr. and others to weed out party “undesirables.” <\/p>\n

Under this test (Reagan’s Unity Principle for Support of Candidates<\/em>), if you’re not right-wing enough to pass muster on at least eight of ten position points, you forfeit RNC support. <\/p>\n

How ironic and amusing that Ronald Reagan, the “purity test’s” namesake<\/a>, couldn’t come close to passing it.<\/p>\n

And that brings me to my latest double limerick:<\/p>\n

Testy Republicans
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Some Republicans want to ensure
\nThat all of its members are pure:
\nWrong on 3 of 10 planks?
\nThen it’s “Sorry, no thanks,”
\nCuz you’re lacking in wingnut allure.<\/p>\n

So how odd that their “God” would not pass
\nThis purity test — what a gas!
\nReagan’s record is clear:
\nHe would fail, were he here.
\nYet he’s Prez nonpareil, under grass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,154,6,7,3,9,184,137,69],"tags":[194,2763,2827,1021,1020,291,2804,2784],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-rnc-humor","category-ronald-reagan","category-wingnuts","tag-election-humor","tag-gop-humor","tag-irony","tag-james-bopp","tag-purity-test","tag-rnc","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-wingnuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}