Kansas GOP Emulates The Communist Party

6:21 pm EST August 8th, 2007 | Republicans | 8 Comments

Showing their true colors.

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

The GOP’s conservative-dominated state committee also is accusing a prominent moderate of trying to undermine the party’s fundraising. It has adopted a resolution criticizing Steve Cloud, a Lenexa businessman and former legislator who represents Kansas on the Republican National Committee.

The state committee’s anti-Cloud resolution and its decision to form the loyalty committee came as Republicans continue to feel the sting of election losses last year. Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius easily won a second term; Paul Morrison switched parties to win the attorney general’s office as a Democrat; and Democrat Nancy Boyda ousted five-term Republican Rep. Jim Ryun in the 2nd Congressional District.

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The state committee’s actions struck a sour note for some Republicans, particularly moderates on issues such as abortion. 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.”

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8 Responses to “Kansas GOP Emulates The Communist Party”

  1. Quaker in a Basement says:
    August 8, 2007 at 7:04 pm

    Communists?

    Did the Kansas Republicans murder a gajillion people? Huh? Did they?

  2. cellulose says:
    August 8, 2007 at 7:56 pm

    I think we now know what the matter with Kansas is.

  3. Gravypan says:
    August 8, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    Well, yeah. The comparison to Communism doesn’t quite fit.

    Though, the Kansas GOP would be better served looking into why they got their asses kicked in last November instead of threatening any officers who support moderate Democrats.

    And actually, the way the Kansas GOP is acting isn’t that much different than how some Dems (like the host of this blog) treated Joe Lieberman once he strayed from the party line.

  4. midderpidge says:
    August 8, 2007 at 9:15 pm

    It is? I don’t recall the Democratic party requiring Lieberman or anyone else to take a loyalty oath.

    Anyhow, I think they are just patterning the party after the hiring practices of the Bush administration.

  5. OxyCon says:
    August 8, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    Repubs in general remind me of Amway cultist scammers.

    http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0412/S00079.htm

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    And as for the Communist Party comment, everyone knows that in Communist countries, you either were a sworn member of the Communist party or you were a non entity that starved to death. So yeah, swearing a loyalty oath to a political party is very much akin to the way Commies operate.
    Aren’t you Repubs proud?

  6. Oliver Willis says:
    August 8, 2007 at 10:07 pm

    Except, for the 10,000th time my issue with Joe Leiberman was, and continues to be that he made a point to always slag the Democratic party. There are other, more conservative Democrats who even though I don’t agree with them on policy don’t get my – and a lot of others – scorn because THEY DON’T PISS ON THE PARTY EVERY TIME SOMEONE SHOVES A MICROPHONE IN THEIR FACE.

  7. Enlightened Liberal says:
    August 8, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    That, and that other conservative Democrats don’t run as independents when they lose a party primary.

  8. Duros62 says:
    August 9, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    Or create a new party and then not join it.