GOP asks for public's help crafting 2016 platform, launches interactive website

http://www.foxnews.com/ ^ | 6/8/16 | staff

[V K Lee]

Donald Trump’s rise has fueled an identity crisis of sorts for the Republican Party – and now, the GOP is seeking the public’s help defining what the party of 2016 represents.

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On the heels of the final primary contests that solidified Trump’s claim to the nomination, the Republican National Committee on Wednesday launched an interactive website

[V K Lee]

The RNC is attempting to slaughter their base by making us all die from laughter! Lost in a lost world, still wandering about.

Mr. Trump’s platform is solid enough and the majority of US agree with him. Why aren’t they asking him and following his suggestions? Aren’t they speaking?

[knarf]

We're relatively hours away from a convention, days from the election .. and some people are calling for mittens to run against Trump and for others to call in and tell the RNC what they are supposed to be

I've known my Republican/Conservative identity since Ronald Reagan

[V K Lee]

Amen! to that one. Some sitting in those cushy chairs are due for taxidermy, which has no Tax collection associated with the term.

[sheana]

My response is shorter....don’t waste your time. Lol

[TheBattman]

Lovely - so they will get a bunch of push for gay marriage endorsement, gender-reassignment treatments paid for, and Bernie Sanders-type suggestions...

The glowing example of “finger in the air” politics.... absolutely no principles....

But then again, the GOP has proven that they don’t care about real values any more, so oh well.

[Albion Wilde]

As Phyllis Schlafley wrote yesterday, MAKE THE WALL PART OF THE PLATFORM.

[V K Lee]

If her voice be louder than ours, perhaps we will have one long stack of concrete blocks. It’s a beginning, though we have begun before and found the task too monumental to complete (by GOPe standards)

At the moment this is no better than talking to a brick wall!!

[poconopundit]

Excellent. Can you share your reference for that platform? Was it on Wikipedia?

Cheers...

[combat_boots]

Build the wall.
No to TPP.
Nix NAFTA.
No TTiP.

[combat_boots]

http://www.platform.gop/

[central_va]

The subject of immigration isn’t even there. What a crock.

[TomGuy]

IT'S A TRICK!

They want email addy. Guess why? Flood with spam for fundraising, probably.

[poconopundit]

V K, a modest and cost saving suggestion for the ever thick-headed GOPe policy wonks and their ilk:

Convert used Hillary campaign posters into signs that point to the hospital.

Since Hillary posters were designed for dual-purpose, they make perfect road signs for the hundreds of GOPe congressmen and RINO pundits who experience cardiac arrest upon hearing Trump's voice on the car radio.  GOPe lives matter :- )

I also strongly recommend all GOPes and NeverTrump people be sent emergency supplies of the miracle drug Trumpazine.

[oblomov]

1952 Republican Platform
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25837

[central_va]

The 1924 platform is the best IMO.

[Covenantor]

The entire RNC, Senate, and House leadership...the only honorable thing is...

but honor is absent in all three.

[Excellence]

Cantor did this. I sent him a few really pointed letters, but I never heard back. It’s all for show.

[poconopundit]

Thanks. Looks like an excellent source of historical reference.

It would highly interesting to chart platform changes over the decades to see how they evolved.

Hopefully Trump will us back to 1950 and 60's values such as "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."