GOP platform backs off pet issues to help McCain (Idiots all!)

yahoo news ^ | 8/27/2008 | MARTIGA LOHN

[tobyhill]

MINNEAPOLIS - Republicans are putting John McCain's campaign priorities above some of their pet issues, including drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and denying citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.

[pissant]

If this is true, let’s just bury the GOP in the litterbox with the rest of the catsh*t.

[cripplecreek]

Well if it was the platform I was voting for, what’s the point?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Neato. A party that stands for nothing. Why are we supposed to be voting GOP again ?

[tobyhill]

People want freakin drilling in ANWR now so instead of the GOP catering to McLame’s wishes maybe they should try representing the people's wishes.

[tobyhill]

We're just supposed to be happy with whatever little nuggets the GOP wants to give to us servants and then keep putting them in office.

[minus_273]

to be honest i think drilling in the arctic wildlife reserve is a stupid idea. there are plenty of other places to drill before we need to go up there.

[Wiseghy]

Platforms are meaningless.

I have no doubt what an Obama Presidency would do to these issues, as well as hundreds of others.

Literally, thousands and thousands of lives are at stake. Bringing up the “platform” is nearly absurd.

Entertaining notions that Obama would “bring conservatives together” or otherwise strengthen the conservative movement in any way is even more absurd.

[itsthejourney]

It’s the GOP’s election to lose. Living up to the name McLame.

[Doogle]

once again it's time to light up the Washington DC keyboard

[tobyhill]

A majority of people want it and these clowns are elected to give it to us. All they have to do is vote on opening it up and we're still 10 years away. Stalling the inevitable is accomplishing nothing.

[pissant]

Platforms are not meaningless. Without a guiding platform, you get miscreants like McCain zigging and zagging every which way and contemplating joining Kerry as VP.

[Jane Austen]

Why grant citizenship to children of illegal aliens. A good number of illegal aliens are terrorists and members of violent gangs. Yep, McCain voted against barring terrorists and violent criminals from entering the US. Only nine other Republican senators supported McCain in this craziness.

[SamuraiScot]

Republicans are putting John McCain's campaign priorities above some of their pet issues

The story's lead is rather misleading. Read the whole thing. It's not bad, actually. Border fence, English the official U.S. language. No assertion of man causing global warming. Emphasizes that environmental concerns can't be used to try to change Americans' way of life.

Further down, you read that the platform draft didn't have a lot of McCain's pet opinions in it, either. The document is just a guideline in any case, but it's tougher than most GOP platforms I've seen described.

[HiramQuick]

Thats funny ... that business plan I crafted for each of my three businesses were worthless ...

Broad statements that keep me on track and those that are interested in my business ... it provides credence to custimers and credibility to creditors

Oh silly me....I forgot .. we are dealing with brilliant RINO’s that are onmniscient in thought and don’t need to be reminded who they are.

Platforms tell us who we are, wheree we are going and when we vear off. The A$$wipes in our gutless republican party don’t need no stinkin direction .. they know it all .. in fact they know better than you and I

Ask Juan McLame .. he will tell you.

[LearsFool]

GOP platform backs off pet issues to help McCain

Why not? McCain will "reach across the aisle"^TM and pick up his copy of the Democrat platform anyway.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Them nuggets have shrunk to sand grains. It’ll be quarks by 2012.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Odd . . .

I was under the impression that the GOP’s Platform is a bottom up agenda. That is, resolutions are drafted at the BPOU level and passed along upward. I have been part of the process at the county and state level and assumed that the national agenda reflected the will of Party activists from every state. In this way, goals are truly those of the people.

RAT’s OTOH, set their agenda from the top down . . .

If this report is true, then the Pubbies have left me and the tenets of the GOP behind. Looks like I’ll need to find new company.

[tobyhill]

I'm tired of having to accept “compromising platforms”. Sure there's good things in the platform but it's not the picture that Americans need. Americans need to know that the GOP is willing to go wherever there's oil and put a freakin pipe in it. There's 12 billion barrels in ANWR and it's not the governments oil to withhold from the American people, it's our oil.

[cripplecreek]

Without a guiding platform, you get miscreants like McCain zigging and zagging every which way and contemplating joining Kerry as VP.

Sure opens the door to say "You knew what you were getting when you voted for him".