Texas Republican Party Platform Thread 3

Brown County, Texas Website ^ | June, 2002 | Republican Party of Texas

[Bigun]

The Republican Party of Texas Platform has been MUCH in the news of late because it is a CONSERVATIVE document and, as such, VERY controversial. I thought it would be an instructive exercise, for those of us who wish to do so here, to go through it plank by plank and see where we stand on these issues. Pursuant to that, I will post ONE plank of the Platform, every few days and anyone who wishes to can state their views as to that particular part of the platform.

Today we move to the subheading Preserving American Freedom:

Limited Federal Powers - The Party urges the re-affirmation of states' rights guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We further support the abolition of federal agencies involved in activities not originally intended to be delegated to the federal government under a strict interpretation of the Constitution.

Previous thread is HERE

[Bigun]

I have decided to score myself by assigning 10 points for every plank I agree with and 0 points for those with which I disagree.

Nothing with which to disagree so far. My score to this point is 30.

[Bigun]

P I N G ! ! !

[Commander8]

Bravo for the Texas Republicans.
Too bad the Log Cabin Society is too far entrenched in the California Republican Party to allow a platform like this to pass.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Well I’m a perfect 30 so far ......... won’t last! ;-)

[Dog Gone]

I agree with the principle. It's quite another thing to make it a campaign promise, especially when it's spelled out.

[Bigun]

Well I’m a perfect 30 so far ......... won’t last!

We are in agreement........so far! LOL!

[Bigun]

We COULD rehash the previous thread!;>)Naw! Let's not!

[Bigun]

It's quite another thing to make it a campaign promise, especially when it's spelled out.

Certianly we agree on THAT!

[Dog Gone]

I don't want to make extra work for you, but it might be helpful to post a link to each previous thread at the beginning of each new thread.

[rwjst4]

Looks good--the only thing missing is any mention about
getting the United States out of the UN.

[MissAmericanPie]

30

[Bigun]

I called myself doing that but for some unknown reason, possibly connected to my incompetence with HTML, THAT link doesn't work so here is another:

Previous Thread

[Bigun]

20 years ago it would have been impossible here as well!

All it takes is folks getting together and deciding to do it!

[Bigun]

Looks good--the only thing missing is any mention about getting the United States out of the UN.

Wait! It's coming I'll assure you!

[dixie sass]

Bigun? Do you by any chance have links to the previous two articles? I'm not at home and was unable to save them.

[Bigun]

Dixie each of these threads has a link to the previous thread in it's opening post however the one on THIS thread is no good and I reposted it in post #12.

Bigun

[B4Ranch]

It would be nice to see just one Republican group that has the balls to mention our #1 threat in their platform. ILLEGAL ALIENS

[wcbtinman]

Yes, I agree with that plank, and most of the others I read.

I guess that I got ahead of the current discussion, but I thought that the question was something like: Do you agreee with the platform of the Republican Party of Texas?

The 2nd amendment is something very close to me, so I went directly there to see what the plank stated, and I don't agree with that as written.

[carenot]

I think it's on page 20 on this

http://www.texasgop.org/library/RPTPlatform2002.pdf

[Torie]

The most controversial planks seem to be missing from the link, like getting the US out of UN, shutting down a bunch of government agencies, etc. Most but not all of these planks are too generalized to be meaningful, and some are almost akin to supporting motherhood planks. That being said, I supported 20, opposed 12, and have no opinion on one. Cheers.