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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is no doubt that the RNC platform will be more right wing than any that preceded it
On Abortion: No exceptions. Not for rape, or incest, or even the life of the mother. Calls for a Constitutional amendment defining life as beginning at the moment of conception.
On marriage: Man and woman only. Calls for constitutional amendment defining marriage as hetero property.
On taxes:GOP Platform Wont Protect Mortgage Tax Deduction
Republican platform drafters refused to put their party on record for preserving the mortgage- interest deduction, giving Mitt Romney more flexibility to promote his plan to lower tax rates paid by corporations and the wealthiest Americans without increasing the federal debt.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-20/republican-platform-won-t-protect-mortgage-tax-deduction
Gone from the 2008 platform is support for long-term energy tax credits to support the development of wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower energy. The goal is to make the platform compatible with Romneys recently expressed opposition to wind tax credits, a stance thats hurting him in Iowa.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79919_Page3.html#ixzz24DMzpv1H
On elections: Language in the platform calls for more voter ID laws.
On Medicare: It formally endorses the Ryan "Plan".
The RNC platform has long been an insane, wingnut radical document.
Now it's more insane than ever before.
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There is no doubt that the RNC platform will be more right wing than any that preceded it (Original Post)
cali
Aug 2012
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pampango
(24,692 posts)1. If it is anything like the Texas and Iowa GOP platforms (and it probably will be) it will be
RedStateLiberal
(1,374 posts)2. What really gets me is...
Romney wants to pretend that he's not running on the GOP platform. He's suppose to be the leader of the party yet he runs from their ideas.
It's like they have a secret agenda that Romney knows will be political suicide to publicly admit. They want to have it both ways - as usual - but it's so damn obvious, the con game they're playing. When will people wake up?