“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.”
It does actually. The RNC platform committee membership comes from the state parties.
“If this report is true”
Yikes! Since when do you buy the MSM story ...
Here’s the draft platform - NOTE JUST A DRAFT:
http://www2.nationalreview.com/dest/2008/08/25/fulldraftaug25.pdf
One snippet:
Appointing Constitutionalist Judges for the Nation’s Courts
17 Judicial activism is a grave threat to the rule of law because unaccountable federal judges are
18 usurping democracy, ignoring the Constitution and its separation of powers, and imposing their
19 personal opinions upon the public. This must stop.
20 We condemn the Supreme Court’s disregard of homeowners’ property rights in its Kelo decision and
21 deplore the Court’s arbitrary extension of Americans’ habeas corpus rights to enemy combatants held
22 abroad. We object to the Court’s unwarranted interference in the administration of the death penalty
23 in this country for the benefit of savage criminals whose guilt is not at issue. We lament that judges
24 have denied the people their right to set abortion policies in the states and are undermining traditional
25 marriage laws from coast to coast. We are astounded that four justices of the Supreme Court believe
26 that individual Americans have no individual right to bear arms to protect themselves and their
27 families.
28 Republicans will insist on the appointment of constitutionalist judges, men and women who will not
29 distort our founding documents to deny the people’s right to self-government, sanction federal
30 powers that violate our liberties, or inject foreign law into American jurisprudence.
31 Republicans oppose stealth nominations. Nominees to the Supreme Court must have a clear and
32 distinguished record that leaves no doubt about their respect for the Constitution and their intellectual
33 fortitude.
34 We reject the Democrats’ view that judicial nominees should guarantee particular results even before
35 the case is filed. Judges should not be politicians.
etc.
48 PAGES ... NOT SHORT!
O.K., fine. The Platform goes forward (I’ll accept that when I read it Monday, though) but the eternal problem remains - how do we get the RINOs elected (under pretense of supporting the Platform) to act on it?