Why? The Booshes didn’t!
who the hell is he to tell Trump what he “must do”
I don’t think Trump even asked for his advice.
No way unless he wants to lose the election. The platform is RNC insider posturing, not meaningful. Now, if the party had been smart and asked Trump to write the platform, then fine, demand he follow it. But they didn’t and I don’t think any candidate has ever followed it. Not once.
Trump doesn’t have to do anything except hit his four major points.....the wall, radical Islamic terrorism, trade forametican interests, bring jobs home
Those are in the platform.
I am sick of crushers telling the rest of us what trump has to do. Your guy lost. He didn’t call for party unity. He in fact threw out there the vote your conscience meme of the never trumpets
Look , IF Trump doesn’t win SCOTUS is toast, illegals will get citizenship, and ISIS will be alive and well in our homeland. Your choice
Enough with the Republicans for Clinton BS.
Trump has been very clear on what his agenda will be (border, trade, jobs, and the vets) this author and all how agree with this article can stuff it.
These cucks are so up themselves you have to check twice to see if you're reading an Onion parody. Deep gratitude to President Trump for ridding the body politic of these tapeworms.
I consider myself to be a good Conservative. And I like the platform pretty well.
But recovering from Obama should not be about purity and ideology. We need to implement practical steps that bring this country back. I VERY MUCH like Trump’s spoken policies and I think what he proposes is implementable.
But if we tie it to an overly ideological platform, the road in front of us will be steep indeed.
The platform is good, but tying one of Trump’s hands behind his back by making him take another pledge is just another Never-Trumper trick to funnel votes to Hillary. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the next release of hacked DNC or Hillary emails doesn’t show some type of collusion between the Never-Trumpers and the DNC.
Nobody else ever did.What is the matter you guys afraid you won’t get your tax breaks and your subsidies or you cheap labor?
Same old play book. Meet a conservative litmus test, say all the right words, be seen with the right people, then do your deals behind closed doors.
Trump is not playing your loosing game.
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.
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.
An old political tradition is to ignore the platform... both parties do it.
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.