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Welcome to Nineteen Sixty Four. The Republicans held their conservative hoe-down at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, and nominated the most conservative ticket the Republican Party had fielded since Calvin Coolidge was president. Patterns have a way of repeating themselves:
GOP takes tough platform approach
Filled with strict stances, most conservative plan in party history to be unveiled
By Ralph Z. Hallow-The Washington Times Tuesday, August 21, 2012TAMPA, Fla. — Republicans next week will likely adopt what veteran platform writers said is the most conservative platform in their history after the drafting committee voted to keep strict pro-life, pro-defense and traditional marriage planks intact.
When the national convention’s 2,286 delegates and 2,125 alternates assemble Monday, each of them will find a printed form of the document on their seats and they will be asked to vote it up or down. They have always approved it in the past.
“The [Republican National Committee] platform appears to be the most conservative platform in modern history,” platform committee member and tea party organizer Russ Walker* told The Washington Times.
Building on the influences of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas and the tea party movements, the GOP’s platform now includes a whole section “dedicated to restoring constitutional government” …
Well, a year from now we’ll see just how focused and in tune with what America really cares about this all is.
Oh, and “Russ Walker”?
Russ Walker is second from the right
That’s “Russ Walker of Oregon,” he of Freedomworks, and, before that, of Citizens for a Sound Economy, as the only state salaried “director” of the Koch Brothers’ little astroturf laboratory (when CSE became Freedomworks, they just changed the stationery, not the salary or the office or the staff) that they try out new “initiative” legislation on. I’ve covered him at length, and the fact that he’s now on the Republican Platform Committee OUGHT to tell you something. More on this later, but for now:
- Freedomworks’ Little Frankenstein Lab: Oregon (31 October 2009)
Courage.
They didn’t say “Thank you mam” either. Just wham bam!
For a political party that claims it wants a smaller less intrusive government in our personal lives, they sure keep adding more intrusions. I keep getting email from conservative relatives worried about “Sharia Law” coming to our country, now i just tell them to relax, their party is doing it’s best to get their version enacted here. Conservative republicans are anti-american democracy.