{"id":198213,"date":"2007-12-01T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/01\/a-rundown-on-gop-loyalty-oaths\/"},"modified":"2007-12-01T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T01:15:00","slug":"a-rundown-on-gop-loyalty-oaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/01\/a-rundown-on-gop-loyalty-oaths\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rundown on GOP Loyalty Oaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13742.html\">Grand Old Party of Stalin<\/a>, I guess.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Virginia Republican party is requiring a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">signed oath<\/span> that you will vote for the Republican presidential nominee.<\/li>\n<li>The Kansas state Republican Party is forming a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">loyalty committee<\/span> to punish officials who endorse or contribute to the wrong people.<\/li>\n<li>On Vice President Cheney\u2019s recent trip to New Mexico, residents were allowed in to hear his Albuquerque speech only if they signed a loyalty oath swearing they \u201cendorse George W. Bush for reelection of the United States [sic].\u201d<\/li>\n<li>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 \u201cI want you to stand, raise your right hands,\u201d and recite \u201cthe Bush Pledge,\u201d said Florida state Sen. Ken Pruitt. The assembled mass of about 2,000 in this Treasure Coast town about an hour north of West Palm Beach dutifully rose, arms aloft, and repeated after Pruitt: \u201cI care about freedom and liberty. I care about my family. I care about my country. Because I care, I promise to work hard to re-elect, re-elect George W. Bush as president of the United States.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These folks have a problem deeper than bad policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Old Party of Stalin, I guess. The Virginia Republican party is requiring a signed oath that you will vote for the Republican presidential nominee. The Kansas state Republican Party is forming a loyalty committee to punish officials who endorse or contribute to the wrong people. On Vice President Cheney\u2019s recent trip to New Mexico, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,978,982,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-politics","category-stupid","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}