Former RNC chairman Gillespie whacks purity test

Former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie made the case against a proposed GOP "purity test" today, arguing it would prevent national Republicans from supporting electable candidates.

The purity case lays out ten positions a Republican must support to receive funding or an endorsement from the party.

Here's Gillespie on CBS's Face the Nation:

 I suspect, if you look at those 10 things that a Republican running in a primary for Congress against another Republican, the Republican who agrees with nine out of, you know, those 10 will beat the Republican who agrees with seven out of those 10.

The question for me is, you know, in terms of the -- as a former chairman, as I look at it, what if you have a Republican who agrees with seven out of those 10 things running against a Democrat who agrees with zero out of those 10 things and you want to put some money into a race to try to win back the House and you're constrained from doing that?

I'm not sure that would be in the best interest of the party at the end of the day.