{"id":12041,"date":"2007-12-05T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/12\/05\/loyalty-oaths.html"},"modified":"2007-12-05T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:09:38","slug":"loyalty_oaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/05\/loyalty_oaths.html","title":{"rendered":"Loyalty oaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keen!  The state GOP in Virginia will require folks to sign a loyalty oath<\/a> before they can cast a vote in the Republican primary.  The oath isn’t loyalty to the US (which would be insulting), but to the party<\/p>\n

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If you’re planning to vote in Virginia’s February Republican presidential primary, be prepared to sign an oath swearing your Republican loyalty. The State Board of Elections on Monday approved a state Republican Party request to require all who apply for a GOP primary ballot first vow in writing that they’ll vote for the party’s presidential nominee next fall.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At first blush, it looks like they’re afraid that if Rudy gets the nod, the anti-Rudy folks might support an alternative candidate (ditto for any of the other GOP hopefuls). <\/p>\n

But there might be some (shades of Illegal Alien Xenophobia) paranoia at work here, too.<\/p>\n

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There’s no practical way to enforce the oath. Virginia doesn’t require voters to register by party, and for years the state’s Republicans have fretted that Democrats might meddle in their open primaries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Egads!  Some of those Democratic bounders might pollute our precious electoral fluids!  I know!  Let’s make them sign an oath!  That’ll put them in their places!<\/em><\/p>\n

Goofy.<\/p>\n

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(via Terry<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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