Super Bowl Ad Controversy

This Sunday is the Super Bowl. Focus on the Family, http://www.focusonthefamily.com/ , a Christian based organization is running an anti-abortion ad featuring Tim Tebow – the former Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Florida. The liberals are beyond reproach about this message. They don’t want it to get out. Check out this that I stumbled upon – from 1986.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kathleen-mckinley/2010/02/04/tim-tebow-has-nothing-these-guys

What is happening in this country is that the progressive liberals have worn on us slowly – just the way God carved the Grand Canyon! Over the past 24 years, they have moved the argument such that we conservatives feel bad, or at the least feel judged for even bringing the debate into focus! The balance of 2010 – don’t give an inch in your beliefs, in what you know, in your values. It is what it is – and as we lead up to this crucial mid-term election. Stand your ground on all conservative principals – not just one or two.

Recently, the Republican National Committee failed to pass a resolution that would have bound GOP candidates to support at least 8 of the 10 points to receive funding from the RNC. Sadly, it failed to pass.

Thursday, February 4, 2010
Proposed RNC "Unity Principle for Support of Candidates" resolution, which failed at the Committee's January 2010 meeting.
WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed that the Republican Party should support and espouse conservative principles and public policies; and
WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan also believed the Republican Party should welcome those with diverse views; and
WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan believed, as a result, that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, not his opponent; and
WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies and Republican solidarity in opposition to Obama's socialist agenda is necessary to preserve the security of our country, our economic and political freedoms, and our way of life; and
WHEREAS, Republican faithfulness to its conservative principles and public policies is necessary to restore the trust of the American people in the Republican Party and to lead to Republican electoral victories; and
WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee shares President Ronald Reagan's belief that the Republican Party should espouse conservative principles and public policies and welcome persons of diverse views; and
WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee desires to implement President Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates; and
WHEREAS, in addition to supporting candidates, the Republican National Committee provides financial support for Republican state and local parties for party building and federal election activities, which benefits all candidates and is not affected by this resolution; and
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee identifies ten (10) key public policy positions for the 2010 election cycle, which the Republican National Committee expects its public officials and candidates to support:
(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama's “stimulus” bill;
(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;
(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
(4) We support workers' right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing, denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership; and be further
RESOLVED, that a candidate who disagrees with three or more of the above stated public policy positions of the Republican National Committee, as identified by the voting record, public statements and/or signed questionnaire of the candidate, shall not be eligible for financial support and endorsement by the Republican National Committee; and be further
RESOLVED, that upon the approval of this resolution the Republican National Committee shall deliver a copy of this resolution to each of Republican members of Congress, all Republican candidates for Congress, as they become known, and to each Republican state and territorial party office.