There 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 Won’t 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 Romney’s recently expressed opposition to wind tax credits, a stance that’s 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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