1964 Republican Party Platform -the last conservative year-

NWU - Party Platforms ^ | 8/1/03

[Capitalism2003]

This sounds sorta like today's Libertarian platform.

[once upon a time]

Probably the biggest 4 year political flip flop in american political history.

Wrong ! That honor goes to Jiimmah Cartah.

[Southack]

"The whole country lost with nixon."

Certainly the Left hated Nixon for going after the traitor Alger Hiss (or was it Hess).

Did the whole country lose with Nixon? Nixon legalized gold, so that Americans could finally own it again after decades of prohibition (FDR, 1932).

Nixon got us out of Vietnam.

Nixon split Red China away from its Communist ally the Soviet Union, enabling us to eventually defeat the one at our convenience, rather than having to forever take them both on simultaneously.

We also landed all of our men onto the Moon during Nixon's Presidency, although how much credit you want to give to him for that feat is probably going to be up to your personal feelings about the man.

[habs4ever]

What's your point for this three hanky weepfest over a lost era?

[tpaine]

Both parties stiil have zealous 'states rights' groups.

California's leftist, demo controled 'states rights' contingent is busy using that argument to ban assault weapons. Some of FR's 'conservative' statists agree that CA has that constitutional power.

Go figure.

[LibKill]

1. Every person has the right to govern himself, to fix his own goals, and to make his own way with a minimum of governmental interference.

Gee, I could live with that.

[tpaine]

I thought you'ed never notice.

[tpaine]

Hardly. We all knew democrats were wimps, long before Carter proved it.

[swheats]

God willing and the republicans gain a super majority in the House and Senate in '04, I hope one of the first priorities will be to adequately define the "Separation of Church and State".

The Liberal left as used it as a sword to wield their own power of denouncing everything that is wholesome and right. Standing "liberty and justice for all" on it's head . If you're not gay or willing to kill your child, the democrats have nothing else to offer.

It has also taken 40 years, for the next election, for minorities to finally gain independence from the democrat party and realize they do not have their best interest at the forefront of their priorities.

As Bush said in 2000, they have not led, we will.

[tpaine]

Dream on of nixonian triumphs. The man was a political disaster.

[swheats]

I'm working to re-elect George W Bush. As history would have it, I was only one during Goldwater's time.

How can these folks continue to lead, viewing their rearview mirror? If the Republicans after 40 years and have a super majority does not accomplish Republican ideals then we have a major problem. But until then maybe the 3rd party types can tell us how to fill up the courts with conservative judges. Without recess appointments.

[tpaine]

Just showing some of the younger set a REAL Republican Platform.
In contrast to a typically phony one from only four years later.

What's your point in calling this a "three hanky weepfest over a lost era"?

[habs4ever]

A Real platform that was a big ZERO, too....

You live in a utopian fog,tommy, if only all the stars ahd alined right your dreams would have come true.Get out the Kleenex.Oh, and don't forget to call me a socialist.

[tpaine]

"1. Every person has the right to govern himself, to fix his own goals, and to make his own way with a minimum of governmental interference."


Gee, I could live with that.
-LibKil-


Not todays rinos. They want the state to interfere in every aspect of our lives.

[MEG33]

It would seem judgeships have a lot of resonance with the abortion rights groups but I think the war has kept this filibuster off the radar for most people.I hate it.

[tpaine]

God willing and the republicans gain a super majority in the House and Senate in '04, I hope one of the first priorities will be to adequately define the "Separation of Church and State".
-swh-


Its been adequately defined as 'keeping them separated' for a couple of hundred years.
Some just cannot seem to accept this simple truth however. So it goes.

[billbears]

We are opposed to all sumptuary laws, as an interference with the individual rights of the citizen.

Anybody want to take a guess which platform of the two this came from in 1892?

[tpaine]

Whatever, 'hab baby'.

[Ford Fairlane]

If Nixon was a disaster, what were Johnson & Carter?

IMHO, the last decent, honorable President was Reagan, and the last one before him was probably Teddy Roosevelt, and before him Tyler (the last one to vigorously defend the original intent of the constitution)

[swheats]

True. It's the "some" that keep distorting it for the majority.