Loyalty oaths in New Mexico

Thanks to MoJo blog, I just read about a stunt the Republicans pulled in Rio Rancho, NM. To stop activists from protesting, all the attendees to a speech by Dick Cheney had to sign loyalty oaths. What a crock!

Aside from seeming utterly ridiculous, the enforcemnt of loyalty oaths seems politically questionable. The growing sense among observers is that Bush's campaign has continued to tack right, thereby repelling more moderate voters. Explicitly excluding such voters from your events, then, seems like the obvious wrong step, especially in a tight state like New Mexico.

If you can't inspire loyalty, enforce it; lessons from the GOP