Our lovely Grand Old Party of Oregon...

[elfs]

The state platform of the Oregon Republican Party once held this little gem: "7.5 Inter-jurisdictional agency cooperation shall be improved for more effective joint action against organized crime, drug cartels, terrorist networks and the Oregon Democratic Party."

Uh-huh.

In a similar vein, the Virginia GOP will require everyone registering as a Republican to sign a loyalty oath to the party. That's very American of them.

[HT jaylake]

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[codeamazon.livejournal.com]

As recently as yesterday, when I visited the site to confirm the fact.

Viral networking is changing things in interesting ways...

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

Current version:

http://www.orgop.org/About/Default.aspx?SectionId=505

7.5 Inter-jurisdictional agency cooperation shall be improved for more effective joint action against organized crime, drug cartels, and terrorist networks.


They may have felt that 'terrorist networks' and 'Democratic Party' was redundant.

[jenk]

Not sure if it's a joke or if they have the same problem Washington has. Ralph Munro, one of the recent Rs to hold statewide office, was quoted in 94 as saying:

"If [the leaders of the state Republican party] ever want to win a statewide election, they'd better stick to issues that people really care about. The less explosive and divisive we become, the more centrist, the better."

But, I guess they don't. I haven't seen witchcraft, yoga, or globalism in their party platforms lately - too busy nattering about anti-immigration policy and Homeland Security. (HOW do people say that with a straight face? It's so Orwellian.)

Sorry...

[(Anonymous)]

I can't sign a loyalty oath to the Republican Party because what if later I wanted to join the military? I understand to do that you have to take an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution, and I'm trying to avoid conflicting loyalty oaths. :-)