Conservatives split on GOP’s new ‘Pledge To America,’ unveiled by House Republicans

Conservative blogger Erick Erickson called the pledge the “most ridiculous thing to come out of Washington since George McClellan.”

Erickson blasted the document for not providing specific, long-term solutions.

“Yes, yes, it is full of mom-tested, kid-approved pablum that will make certain hearts on the right sing in solidarity,” he wrote on his blog, Redstate.com. “But like a diet full of sugar, it will actually do nothing but keep making Washington fatter before we crash from the sugar high.”

The pledge gathers familiar talking points for Republicans, such as cutting taxes and slashing government spending. It comes at a time when the GOP is gearing up for the midterm elections and hoping to gain majorities in Congress.

And from Hot Air, who I won’t link to;

“Tea Partiers — activists and candidates alike — will not be interested in them. They may reject them on principle. They may reject them on the idea that the GOP leaders’ concerns are based on the Pledge as a campaign document, when it should be seen more as a governing document. They can point to the Contract as an example, or even note that voters did not notice or care that Obama ran on a left-wing platform, because they were fed up with the failures (real and imagined) of the Bush43 Republicans.”