Oh, the irony...

[progressoid]

From the Republican Party Platform at the 2000 convention:

• Trust, pride, and respect: we pledge to restore these qualities to the way Americans view their government. It is the most important of tasks and reflects the overwhelming desire of our citizens for fundamental change in official Washington.
  
  
• "The arrogance, inconsistency, and unreliability of the administration's diplomacy have undermined American alliances, alienated friends, and emboldened our adversaries."
  
  
• "Nor should the intelligence community be made the scapegoat for political misjudgments. A Republican administration working with the Congress will respect the needs and quiet sacrifices of these public servants as it strengthens America's intelligence and counter-intelligence capabilities and reorients them toward the dangers of the future."
  
  
• "The current administration has casually sent American armed forces on dozens of missions without clear goals, realizable objectives, favorable rules of engagement, or defined exit strategies. Over the past seven years, a shrunken American military has been run ragged by a deployment tempo that has eroded its military readiness. Many units have seen their operational requirements increased four-fold, wearing out both people and equipment."
  
  
• "The rule of law, the very foundation for a free society, has been under assault, not only by criminals from the ground up, but also from the top down. An administration that lives by evasion, coverup, stonewalling, and duplicity has given us a totally discredited Department of Justice."
  
  
• "Sending our military on vague, aimless, and endless missions rapidly saps morale. Even the highest morale is eventually undermined by back-to-back deployments, poor pay, shortages of spare parts and equipment, inadequate training, and rapidly declining readiness."
  
  
• Today, gas prices have skyrocketed, and oil imports are at all-time highs....By any reasonable standard, the Department of Energy has utterly failed in its mission to safeguard America’s energy security.
  

Read the whole despicable thing here: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/conventions/republican/features/platform.00/

[DCKit]

1. Nobody told ME that 2000 was "Opposite Year"

[progressoid]

5. weird...

...it would seem that 30% of Americans actually approve of the opposite of what they voted for.

Go figure.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

27. Or, 30% of the world is really that out of touch with reality

Personally, I lean toward them being out of touch with reality. I know people who live in such a faux, insulated world that they have no concept of what is really taking place in the world today. They'd much rather pretend all is as it should be than face what's going on around them.

[progressoid]

28. Yeah, I agree

Most of those supporters have no idea what is going on in the world, or even in their own little bubble.

[Sparkly]

23. Hah!

Perfect. And the loser won, too! :crazy:

[Cabcere]

25. My thoughts EXACTLY

GMTA, I guess. :toast:

[Iwasthere]

2. OMG !!!

This should be in the hands of all our Democratic leaders. Especially on Sundays when they are in front of the camera.

[DCKit]

3. T-shirts

[gatorboy]

4. HEH!!!! Now THAT'S hilarious!

If people don't recommend this...Well, they just hate America, they do!

[Forkboy]

6. I wish this could be spread far and wide....someone get Keith on the horn!

Bastids!

[JuniperLea]

7. Beyond bizarro

This is prophetic!

[loudsue]

8. K & R Doesn't it make you wanna scream!??

I sure wish the masses of people could see the big picture of what is going on in this country.

:kick::kick::kick:

[me b zola]

9. The winning ad in the '08 general election will feature this document

or quotes from this document. Their pathological lying is truly stunning, this should easily illustrate for those who have not figured that out yet.

[Squatch]

10. That is SOOOOOOOO Pre-9/11

Get with the times, dude.

[huskerlaw]

11. PS, gas prices on 1/8/01? $1.61.

on average in the United States.

According to the Department of Energy.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas1.html

On edit: I guess BushCo took office in January 2001, didn't they? Changed to reflect that.

[gravity]

12. We can just steal their talking points for 2008

[JuniperLea]

16. Bingo!

I'd like to print this out as a flyer and post it all over the place!

[Toots]

13. Well Democrats should adopt that word for word.

At least now it is relevant, when they wrote those words it was all part of their "Big LIE"..

[ComerPerro]

14. to call that ironic is very, very generous, lol

Its how Republicans run every cycle, though. Lies, lies, lies, mixed with promises to push social programs while lowering taxes for all Americans, across the board.

[renate]

15. it's actually really eerie, isn't it?

It's as if it were their wish list for a Bush adminstration instead of made-up complaints about Clinton's.

[Rosemary2205]

17. Be nice if this could be plastered EVERYWHERE late Oct 2008. nt

[JeffR]

18. K & R

I can only shake my head in wonder...

[helderheid]

19. self delete - will check in later

[Marr]

20. We should use the exact same list, but stamp "But we actually MEAN it" over the top.

[helderheid]

21. Did you dig these gems out yourself?

[progressoid]

26. I found it when cleaning out some old files on the computer

It may have come from DU originally! Honestly don't remember.

I added about three points today. I'm sure there are more gems in there, but I got a little queasy reading it and had to stop. I don't have enough antacids to do that all in one sitting.

[helderheid]

22. Oh yes, especially you minorities

To all Americans, particularly immigrants and minorities, we send a clear message: this is the party of freedom and progress, and it is your home.

[ThatsMyBarack]

33. "Heckuva job, Brownie!"

"Now where's that cake?"

[tom_paine]

24. It is their projection, a list if you will, of everything they were going to do

ESPECIALLY the "assaulting the Rule of Law". These Loyal Bushie criminals are without question the biggest traitors and America-haters this nation has ever seen.

They project themselves on to us. Both incredible and mundane (considering some variant of Loyal Bushies plagues all Free Peoples at least once a generation if not more).

[Alcibiades]

29. ‘The fearful build walls;

‘The fearful build walls; the confident demolish them. I am confident in American workers, farmers, and producers, and I am confident that America’s best is the best in the world."

I'm confoosed--isn't this administration currently building a wall along our southern border? Isn't this their solution to illegal immigration?

"The fearful build walls. Other people dig tunnels under them."

[Cheap_Trick]

30. Sorry, but

irony is too subtle a concept for those dumb ass neos to wrap their puny brains around.

[progressoid]

31. Yep, too subtle

and too kind.

[raccoon]

32. "Trust, pride, and respect"--such as for a Veep who tells a Congressman

to go fuck himself, and says he felt better after he said it, and refuses to apologize?

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[HamdenRice]

34. I am calls bullshit!

This am not this world rePublican platform, but am:

BIZARRO WORLD REPUBLICAN PLATFORM