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(Honolulu, HI) – A sponsor of Jim Bopp’s purity test resolution tells FrumForum that the purity test resolution could be discarded as early as this evening.
The members of the RNC’s resolution committee are currently deliberating the more moderate resolution that Bopp had proposed, the accountability resolution. Soloman Yue, the National Committeeman from Oregon and a sponsor of the ‘purity test’ resolution, tells FrumForum:
Right now the conversation… is that if the accountability resolution goes through the resolution committee with all the [substance] intact and Jim can support it, then in return he will probably drop the Reagan [purity test] resolution.
…I think that if the accountability resolution goes through the committee successfully, by the end of the day something will be worked out with the Reagan resolution.
Carney // Jan 31, 2010 at 3:15 pm
For the umpteenth time, it’s not a purity test.
The word “purity” deliberately calls to mind an insistence on perfection, an unreasonable zeal demanding extreme positions.
But each of the ten positions are popular with the public and/or are highly watered down. For example, the abortion position does not mandate following every jot and tittle of the line as laid down by the National Right to Life Committee (let alone the American Life League). It merely calls for no public funding. Even most mainstream “pro-choice” types agree with that, such as FrumForum hero Scott Brown.
Furthermore, it allows someone to squish even on these weak provisions, and even to squish on three of them.
What’s all the whining and hysteria about then?