Emerging Republican Platform Goes Far to the Right

[workinclasszero]

Emerging Republican Platform Goes Far to the Right
By JEREMY W. PETERS JULY 12, 2016

CLEVELAND — Republicans moved on Tuesday toward adopting a staunchly conservative platform that takes a strict, traditionalist view of the family and child rearing, bars military women from combat, describes coal as a “clean” energy source and declares pornography a “public health crisis.”

It is a platform that at times seems to channel the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump — calling to “destroy ISIS,” belittling President Obama as weak and accusing his administration of inviting attacks from adversaries.

But the document positions itself far to the right of Mr. Trump’s beliefs in other places — and amounts to a rightward lurch even from the party’s hard-line platform in 2012 — especially as it addresses gay men, lesbians and transgender people.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/us/politics/republican-convention-issues.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

[Jerry442]

1. Probably be a really good time to do a thorough check on the sprinklers...

...in the Rei.....err, I mean the Capitol Building.

[SaschaHM]

2. I'm not surprised...

many Trump delegates and supporters are crazier than he is. Some of them make Trump, a sentient rotting orange that has absorbed the personality and thoughts of a klansman, look like a nice well to do man.

[niyad]

3. in what century do these cretins live?

[workinclasszero]

4. When the republicans say they want to take back the country

they mean take it back to the 1800's

[niyad]

5. sadly, I believe that you are quite correct.