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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP asks for public's help crafting 2016 platform, launches interactive website
On the heels of the final primary contests that solidified Trumps claim to the nomination, the Republican National Committee on Wednesday launched an interactive website, www.platform.gop, for people to share what they would like to see in the partys platform. That document will be drafted and adopted at the convention in July.
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I'm not saying that a little well-placed mischief might be had but....
Of course it's a crock. In the vein of "Would you like to get beat over the head with a baseball bat, or a softball bat?", with no option to avoid the beating entirely.
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GOP asks for public's help crafting 2016 platform, launches interactive website (Original Post)
baldguy
Jun 2016
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Gman
(24,780 posts)1. Somebody was smart to not ask open ended questions
Socal31
(2,484 posts)2. Why does this make me picture a NBA coach going to the stands to find an effective player?
It certainly doesn't project confidence to the rest of the fan-base.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)4. Every armchair athlete's dream!
But then, maybe that's the point. The GOP intelligentsia (?) can wash their hands of the landslide loss in Nov.
ananda
(28,860 posts)3. Let me help.
OK, Reeps, each platform has something that we call a plank.
But this is not the kind of plank you walk down and then go kerplunk ...
Oh wait ... never mind.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)5. I remember the last time they did that
They started a website called "America Speaks" or some such nonsense, in which things like "finding out the truth about UFO's" tended to be upvoted by visitors.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)6. Poll-testing the platform has a long history in the GOP
That's how they arrived at the Contract on America.
Unfortunately, "mass suicide" is not one of their campaign planks.