Republican Primary Voters have to sign Loyality Oath to GOP

[rhino47]

http://www.wvec.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8T5NJ0G0.html


elections Board OKs GOP loyalty oath for presidential primary

11/27/2007

By BOB LEWIS / Associated Press

Voters in Virginia's Feb. 12 Republican presidential primary will have to sign an oath swearing loyalty to the eventual GOP ticket.

The State Board of Elections on Monday approved a state Republican Party request that all who apply for a GOP primary ballot first vow in writing to vote for the Republican presidential nominee next fall.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. How can that be enforced?

Unless they don't have a secret ballot, how would the GOP know who anyone voted for?

[rhino47]

2. I do not think its enforcable.

However just the fact they would want an oath is a good thing.For us that is.
The over reach I think is going to send slews to the dems.

[AlinPA]

10. God will smite them if they don't toe the line.

[BonnieJW]

13. It can't be enforced.

I think it's great. Imagine all those signed oaths and then they lose by a landslide.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer nt

[magellan]

4. So you sign the stupid loyalty oath and vote another way anyhow

How the hell will they know? Hmm? Or are they acknowledging that they have a way of checking up on people?

Completely ignoring, of course, the fact that this practice is blatantly anti-democratic and un-American in the first place, which alone should cause outrage.

[zbdent]

12. intimidation tactic ...

[wtmusic]

15. exactly.

There will be some voters who will misconstrue it as a legal obligation not to switch parties or even vote across party lines.

You don't have to be smart to vote.

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. Forget enforceable, how can this be legal?

It is a direct violation of the fundamental principles of a free election to require any participant to commit to a candidate. Period, end of discussion. If this is allowed to stand, what prevents the Ruling Party from saying that any voter anywhere in the country must sign a loyalty oath to the Ruling Party if they want to vote?

[wtmusic]

6. I want to sign up just so I can break their anal little oath

but I don't live in ol' Virginny :cry:

[rhino47]

9. You would suject yourself to rethug mailers ?

My husband was a moderate rethug.He still gets hateful mail from them.Its been over 7 years.

[RoBear]

11. That was my first thought, too...

n/t

[PM Martin]

7. Republicans: The Party of Tyranny.

[The Traveler]

8. Republican Party ==> Communist Party

Obviously they have found considerable inspiration in the political techniques of the old Soviet Union. Vladimir Lenin would smile approvingly upon their tactics. I like pointing this kind of stuff out to my Republican friends down here in Georgia and adding a riff something like this:

"Frankly, I think they are really just a bunch of puke gutted ass hole sucking Bolshevik Reds. Commies intent on resurrecting the U.S.S.R. by undermining the American economy, shredding the Constitution, and pissing all over traditional American values. They've gotten us mired in exactly the kind of conflict that drained the Russkis dry, and they've even sold out CIA agents. Fuckin' Commie bastard traitor symps."

I love watching their heads explode right about that time ... :evilgrin:

[L. Coyote]

14. Does that offer include free membership in the Corrupt Bastards Club?

[tom_paine]

16. They are some sick Nazi fucks. This definitely has more than a whiff of Hitler about it.

:puke: