From Eric Dondero:It's being dubbed a "Red Meat" state convention. Idaho Republican delegates met in convention in Idaho Falls over the weekend and adopted a hardline platform. From the Deseret News:
Take the party's new platform, updated Saturday to include a loyalty test for candidates, a provision recommending Idaho withhold taxes from the federal government, further efforts to limit marriage to "naturally born" men and women — even a GOP-sanctioned admonishment for residents to stock up on gold and silver to gird against the ravages of U.S. dollar inflation, should it come to that.(Bold emphasis added.)
a recommendation to revise the Idaho Constitution to give Idaho the right to take over federally managed U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management territory.
Also, two Tea Party stalwarts were elected to the GOP Executive Committee - Secretary and Treasurer positions. The Party is already Chaired by a hardline conservative Norm Samanko who won reelection.
2 Bloviations:
What's libertarian about this new state platform, pray tell? None of the planks you cited are particularly pro-liberty.
This isn't Libertarian embrace, far from it , this is neocon isolationist platform that kills freedom & thought with fear mongering & loyalty tests, yep the Idaho R's are painting themselves into the proverbial corner with industrial strength concrete. The concrete that will assuredly cause a schism in the party. Oh wait thats in mid process as you read this. It should be interesting to watch how this plays out.
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