The GOP has always been a party of moderates. Rush Limbaugh was right when he said that the party historically only tolerated the conservatives in its midst, but now it outright wars against them.
"What's wrong with the platform?"
Well, there's the official support for "environmentally friendly" energy development and the fact that no social issues are mentioned. But the platform is words on a website or a piece of paper. It's meaningless when Republicans are becoming increasingly pro-queer, pro-amnesty, and pro-Obamacare, or at least lacking the guts to do anything about it. You can be sure of this: at some point, the platform will be changed to include support for "marriage equality."
How many hard lessons does it take for us to understand that we are not going to change the GOP from within? That magical, dreamed-of day is never going to arrive.
Amen. +1
Then the USA is over. Your experiment would take decades to pull off.
We have a couple of years at best.
That could mean a lot of things.
I support pipelines, expanded NG utilization, natural gas to liquid technology, coal gasification and all the R&D of cleaner oil extraction. Don't you? and the fact that no social issues are mentioned.
That is unfortunate, but they are not promoted either, as in the RAT and Libertarian platforms.
What does your state platform look like?