Kansas state GOP self-destructs

[kay9_medic]

State GOP forms loyalty committee

TOPEKA - The state Republican Party is forming a loyalty committee so that it can punish officers who endorse or contribute to Democrats.

Bob Beatty, a Washburn University political scientist, suggested the loyalty committee could prove a "public relations disaster."

"Ironically, it smacks most of the Communist Party," Beatty said Monday. "That's the kind of public irony that most parties try to avoid -- the party of freedom telling people they have no freedom."

And the money quote:

"It gives me pause for thought anytime someone requires a loyalty oath of anyone from any organization," said Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh.

Kansas.com (Wichita Eagle) (http://www.kansas.com/news/state/story/135962.html)

Ummmm, Eugene McCarthy stew for dinner. Yum.

[Scutter]

So that is what that letter from the RNC was all about. Guess I need to send it in reaffirming that I am one of them and giving them the twenty five hundred dollars they expect from me. Sure wouldn't want them to think that I was one of those radical Democrats that are hell bent on destroying the country.

[shinobi]

Does that really surprise anyone?

[Scutter]

Well I do seem to remember that Joe McCarthy was a Republican.