(1) We support the rights extended to Americans extended under the Constitution. All the rights. For all Americans.<\/font><\/p>\n (2) We support thoughtful, pragmatic solutions that protect American lives, American standards, and American pocketbooks. This includes finding solutions that don’t require bombing anyone.<\/font><\/p>\n (3) We support an America that has diversity in race, thought, background, and religion not out of some hazy idealism, but because it is our nation’s greatest strength.<\/font><\/p>\n (4) We oppose torture in any form, in any place, at any time, for any reason.<\/font><\/p>\n (5) We support American business, and recognize that an unregulated market is an unfair market, an unstable market, and a market doomed to failure.<\/font><\/p>\n (6) We support American workers, and know that when workers are allowed to organize they make their jobs, their companies, and their nation stronger.<\/font><\/p>\n (7) We believe that the reputation of our nation is valuable and must be zealously guarded against those who place expediency ahead of law.<\/font><\/p>\n (8) We believe in spreading democracy and human rights to the rest of the world by vigorously upholding those ideals here at home.<\/font><\/p>\n (9) We believe that access to our government is not for sale. Not in the courthouse, not in the White House, and not in the legislature.<\/font><\/p>\n (10) We believe that the health of our planet is not a zero-sum game, not a game of "you go first," and not a game.<\/font><\/p>\n Not a particularly detailed set of positions, I know. But then it’s not supposed to be. Unlike the GOP, we aren’t short of ideas, and unlike Newt, we don’t have to dream up a batch of legislation with cute names. We already have real legislation out there that meet these goals. Bills like the Employee Free Choice Act, the Clean Water Protection Act, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the Affordable Health Care for America Act and many others…<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n Now Traitor Joe LIEberman would pass all these points except for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. So I guess he shouldn\u2019t be allowed to caucus with Democrats and head a committee. Do you think we should have a purity test for Democrats? How would your Democratic Representative and Senators would do on this one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The GOP goose steppers have a purity test to which they are giving tremendous lip service, even though most of them could not pass it. So some enterprising folks have come up with a purity test for Democrats. …Still, the purity test does provide a convenient check list. You too can be accepted as a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Dino\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/APurityTestforDemocrats_2074\/Dino.jpg\" "\\"Dino\\"")
<\/a> …Still, the purity test does provide a convenient check list. You too can be accepted as a Republican if you promise to hate gays, poor people, immigrants, and the environment (which, come to think of it, has been the Republican standard for decades). Out of pure bullet-point envy, I propose that Democrats must also have their own list. Ten litmus tests which every potential Democratic candidate should be able to ace before they ever hope to put (D) after their names. In fact, I’ll go so far as to be more pure than the Republicans. If you can’t pass every one of these tests, don’t bother to sign on.<\/font><\/p>\n