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The Republican Party has formally adopted their platform, amid a smattering of No votes and a bit of tension on the convention floor, which was for the most part safely shunted to the sidelines.
The platform document can be found here. But we already know plenty about it, based on leaks and even an untimely release from the RNC of a portion of it. The GOP platform would ban marriage equality and the right to choose. It would turn Medicare into a voucher program. It would inaugurate a commission to return to the gold standard. It would extend the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts. It would oppose limits or any restrictions on guns, including high-capacity magazine clips. It is an fairly full-throated expression of the right wing of the party.
I’ll have more on the platform tomorrow.
The convention is in the midst of the roll call formally nominating Mitt Romney as their Presidential nominee. Earlier, the convention saw a fight to seat the Maine delegation, including many Paul supporters. The Paul supporters lost the vote, and about half the Maine delegation walked out. Paul supporters also objected to a rule change around the party rules on delegate selection, but they lost that as well. All of this was done away from the prying eyes of prime time viewers.
UPDATE: Mitt Romney has now been formally nominated by the Republican Party as their nominee for President.
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Back to the gold standard! The Republicans really know how to fix the most pressing of our problems. And how brave of Mr Romney to run on a platform that includes this heroic plank. (Of course, tomorrow he may change his tune and support paper money afterall; but for today, let us rejoice that the Repubs have a candidate that will take a stand on coins over paper, paper over plastic, filter over unfiltered.)
Flip flop, Flip flop, Flip FLOP!
Whatever…
Should the 1% deem that RMoney “wins” this Kabuki Show entitled “Presidential Election,” RMoney’s campaign “promises” and the RNC “Plank” will be just like Obama’s promises and the DNC “plank” in 2008: extremely fungible.
The American people are going to get what they want.
They are outright demanding to have their own throats cut.
The elite are happy to oblige.
I love the idea of Republicans getting angry because the local power center isn’t counting their vote for the “wrong” person.
It’s adorable. I just want to pat them on their little bald heads.
kabuke
first they try putting a really scary and unelectable candidate in but that didn’t work so now they are trying to make romney as unelectable as they can
the puppet masters have their marionette in office
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Janine Turner’s speech has me pining for the coherence and clarity of a Sarah Plain
And to think she actually has a radio show…
HEy Dave, will the platform be amended to promise to repeal the increase in fuel standards?
I definitely do feel like I am being “herded”…
“American Exceptionalism” is actually a category in the RNC platform?! Ye fucking gods. And under this category we can find “Our Unequivocal Support of Israel.” Indeed.
Most of the platform is trivial, wind baggy nonsense designed to push emotional buttons for purposes of pretending the Reps are different. It is nothing to be concerned about. What isn’t superficial will be duly sanctioned by the Dems.
Indeed. The platform reads like a child’s fantasy. It’s truly infantile fairy tale shit.
Turner is actually more efficient. The trick for provoking the appropriate conditioned emotional response from the audience is to put all the empty but provocative doublespeak words into a blender and then shoot them out of a shotgun, with force and repetition being far more important than logic, thematic coherence or syntax. Indeed, those last three things are to be avoided if the procedure is to be effective.
Here in Illinois there are a fairly large number of strongly pro-choice Republicans, mainly women, in prominent positions such as the State legislature and Congress (Congresswoman Judy Biggert is an example). Typically, they are more or less in lockstep with Chamber of Commerce positions on business issues but side with the liberals on reproductive/women’s/civil liberty issues. Several Republicans in the Illinois legislature voted in favor of a civil unions bill. Can these politicians, who I assume are present throughout much of the country, in good conscience remain in the Republican party now that it has become an unofficial arm of Opus Dei?