By the grace of God, this platform was adopted in toto this past week at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Posted on 07/24/2016 7:41:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
I think the word “must” should be banned. It started with Clinton and he used it quite excessively to state that this or that directive MUST be worked on, strived for, placed above A, B, and C in our hierarchy of wants and it is YOUR JOB to drop what you are doing and make....Palestinian peace (for example) your first directive. >>YOU<< don’t mean s**t, >>OUR<< priorites must be to ....provide healthcare for children. You and your family, hey, those are sacrifical items for the greater good; and only *I* have the wisdom to 1: Imagine or discern, 2: state, 3: propose 4: fight against the dirty Republicans for.
Now it is used in a shotgun fashion to invoke the image of the liberal Democrat party the only ones who can take on the task of “healthcare for all”, or “a good education for all children”.
Obama likes to introduce his “must” directives with “no longer can we...” or “For too long we have ....” and couch the “your crappy lives don’t matter compared to my grand ideals” rap with “That’s not the kind of people we are”. Skilled oratory, flaming bulls**t.
It’s a “claim” word. Frankly, it’s a cheap piece of bulls**t. All a liberal has to do is to say he/she (and only he/she) understands the needs of children and thus he/she is uniquely empowered and enlightened and will fight for legislation that will address what we MUST do for the children. Never mind that in such legislation will be ever-growing tribute to teachers unions and bathroom directives and a little bit of grift (in the footnotes) that have no real function other than the grease the current system and buy votes with taxpayer money. This is their “fight”. They are so very brave, fighting the evil Republicans who object to spending more than already record-smashing amounts pent per pupil in most of our failing schools.
Like so many other words liberals have perverted, “must” has been literally shat on.
What “must” occur with Top Secret materials?
How about: keeping them secret? Oh no, that’s so passe. Anybody can read them, so long as they have an interest, you know. So long as the one who leaks said materials didn’t really have the mens rea to spread them far and wide or to sell them...and the only evidence required of them not wanting to sell them should be the absence of a receipt, right? No receipt, no sale, right?
“Must” has to be reserved for irrefutable top-level concerns. We MUST gear up and take the threat from worldwide Islam far more seriously-—starting with the pervasive invasion of cockroaches currently serving in the top levels of the US security agencies.
I’ll bet real money that the creator’s of this document aren’t conservatives, plus Bush didn’t.
Excellent
Thanks for the heads up. I'd hate to damage my TV
By the grace of God, this platform was adopted in toto this past week at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Will the “never trumpers” ever go away?
No other nominee ever has made this pledge.
Why should Trump be held to a higher standard than previous nominees?
Show me where Ford, Reagan, Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, or Romney were held to this standard; show me their pledge.
Why?
Pledged don’t seem to mean much with Republicans, especially as exhibited by some recent Republican candidates and their pledges to support the Republican nominee.
Party platforms have meant very litte for decades. They are little more than sound-good-isms to placate various factions.
I just watched the thing gavel to gavel on CSPAN and was left wondering Friday morning...”ok...where and what is the Republican Platform?”
Just don’t pay any attention to them. I registered in 1979 for the Republican Party and have always voted for the Republican nominee in the general election and will do so as long as I live. That is why I don’t let anyone tell me who to vote for, or not to vote for. I also don’t listen to or watch political TV ads
You think? LOL now that is hilarious
“Why? The Booshes didn’t!”
My first thought too. The party has NO RIGHT to hold Trump to a higher standard than it has held the people it liked...which is NO STANDARD.
Don’t get me wrong, though - I like the platform, but I also won’t hold it against Trump if he treats it no better than the Booshes (LOL) did.
That you for your excellent insight and reply.
An old political tradition is to ignore the platform... both parties do it.
At this point in time the purpose of the party platform is to pander to interest groups and to give people who have either done good work or contributed money but have no real relevance to the process feel as though they are contributing something important.
The fact that the "Never Trumpers" are appealing to the party platform just demonstrates how out of touch and irrelevant they are.
At this point in time the purpose of the party platform is to pander to interest groups and to give people who have either done good work or contributed money but have no real relevance to the process feel as though they are contributing something important.
The fact that the "Never Trumpers" are appealing to the party platform just demonstrates how out of touch and irrelevant they are.
Smells like Ted Clinton.
Hey Kaslin you ever post anything positive towards the Republican candidate Donald Trump that will unify us to win against satan’s beast Hillary Clinton?
F U and your pledges!
Why is Trump the only one expected to pledge anything and actually stick to it?
What is the GOP platform?
What I’ve witnessed in recent years regarding borders and security and going along with whatever Obola wants tells me that GOP ideas should be jettisoned immediately.
The GOP platform nowadays is simply maintain the status quo so they can continue to line their pockets at our expense.
The politicians who are supposed to represent us are genociding us in their never ending quest for riches.
We have seen that the GOP stands for nothing. It has no principles.
Ted Cruz is the GOP posterboy.
I don’t care if Trump destroys the GOP.
It needs destroying.
Maybe a new and improved party can rise from the ashes.
The same people who are telling Trump what he must do
are the same ones who will be telling him what he
CAN’T DO if he’s elected.
Probably the same ones that required him to sign their
pledge which they then ignored when push came to shove.
Pledges lost all meaning when 3/4 of the candidates refused to honor theirs and where not penalized for them.
Cruz partisans demanding that Trump make a pledge to them and keep it? File this one under Ironical Humor.
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