[Gelato]

That’s why I think that there is NO chance that your favorite idea of extending the 14th amendment to embryos or fetuses

Then you disagree with our party platform. (Assuming you are Republican.)

[John Valentine]

I don’t think I have ever bought into EVERY plank of any party’s platform at any time in the past 60 years. This is particular plank is a bit of rainbow pie for the fixated dreamers.

I’m still very much a Republican, but first and foremost I am a Conservative, and that means I rant a reduced federal government, not the more powerful, more intrusive one you would foist upon the rest of us.

[SuziQ]

The Republican platform is NOT the Ten Commandments. It’s a set of guidelines to direct party members and candidates. There will be people who don’t agree with various and sundry parts of it. Doesn’t mean they’re not Republicans, and we have the right to vote, or NOT vote for a candidate, based on their agreement with the platform.