Dana Milbank: The GOP's rage platform
WASHINGTON — Let us give thanks to our Judeo-Christian God for the Republican Party. It is the only thing standing between us and the triumph of Shariah law in our land.
Some people may not realize just how close the nation is to succumbing to this puritanical form of Muslim fundamentalism. In fact, we only recently learned that our leaders engaged in a drunken swim, one of them without clothing, on a "fact finding" mission by Republican lawmakers to the Holy Land.
But the clear-eyed patriots who drafted the Republican Party platform can see a threat that myopic Americans have missed. The GOP platform committee, meeting in Tampa, Fla., in advance of the convention, approved language banning U.S. courts from considering foreign legal traditions. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the brains behind several hard-line statutes on immigration, came up with the idea. "In cases involving either spousal abuse or assault or other crimes against persons, sometimes defenses are raised that are based in Shariah law," Kobach warned, according to Talking Points Memo.
This is just one of many policy innovations to appear in the Republican platform. The most-discussed one, following the Todd Akin flap over his comments on rape, has been the anti-abortion language: no exceptions, no way, no how, Just for kicks, the drafters tossed in a "salute" to states that have informed-consent abortion laws such as Virginia — the state that entered transvaginal ultrasound into the national discourse.
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.... The fact that 50% off our country either agrees with, or turns a blind eye to this looniness has me starting to think that I am living somewhere different than I actually do... I just have the freedom to pretty much be who I and what I want for now... But what if we loose this election and maybe the next and the one after that? What if these kooks actually enact this shit they are putting in their platform? And these freaky ideas actually start to become real intrusion in our lives and on our freedoms...
problem is, these things they speak of, these crazy ideas are so far from reality that we all have a tendency to discount them... But holy fuck!! They are written into the republican party platform!!! The republican party being one of two parties in our two party sytem... That leaves about a 50% chance for them to take the house, 50% on the Senate, 50% on the executive branch... They already have the majority of the media and the judicial... We are kind of fucked... I am starting to freak myself out know, and must stop.. 
