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To: fwdude

Yes it sounds like you are off the hook. I quit being a Republican a couple of years ago, not because I no longer believed in the platform, but because THEY no longer believed in their platform.


5 posted on 03/22/2011 9:55:08 AM PDT by Grunthor (hcg diet, down 32 lbs in 5 weeks)
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To: Grunthor

I used to be a donor.

When G.W. went over to the dark side with the Dims during his last term I stopped.

Anything from the GOP goes in the trash since then.


22 posted on 03/22/2011 10:02:05 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Grunthor
I quit being a Republican a couple of years ago, not because I no longer believed in the platform, but because THEY no longer believed in their platform.

Ah, come now... you aren't being harsh enough.
It isn't that the Republican party doesn't believe in it's planks, they do: They fully believe that people will vote for them because they say they'll act on one of those planks.

A good example is when "Second Amendment Support" comes up; how often is the Republican control of Congress cited as the factor in the ending of the Assault Weapons Ban? That ban had a sunset clause so they had to literally do nothing.

Abortion is another one; the Republican-party has had the overturning of Roe v. Wade as a plank for more than 25 years. I'm less than 30, so that's most of my life; and yet the biggest actual step they've done happened just this year: the cessation of funding for Planned Parenthood. {Likely this was spurred on by that sting video, but still it's rather pathetic that even when Republicans had a dominating factor post-11-Sep they didn't even make the symbolic try of proposing a Constitutional Amendment.}

And then there was NY-23 in this last election-cycle where the national Republican-party endorsed the DEMOCRAT candidate over the Tea-Party-member-who-ran-as-a-republican.

In this area the Democrats are more honorable than the Republicans: they at least strive to implement their stated party-planks.

31 posted on 03/22/2011 10:12:37 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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