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Related: About this forumEmerging Republican Platform Goes Far to the Right
Emerging Republican Platform Goes Far to the RightBy 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 partys 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. Trumps beliefs in other places and amounts to a rightward lurch even from the partys 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
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Emerging Republican Platform Goes Far to the Right (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Jul 2016
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Jerry442
(1,265 posts)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
(2,897 posts)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
(113,552 posts)3. in what century do these cretins live?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)4. When the republicans say they want to take back the country
they mean take it back to the 1800's
niyad
(113,552 posts)5. sadly, I believe that you are quite correct.