FYI - here's a copy of the TX GOP Platform

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for you to poop on for you to read in horror

http://static.texastribune.org/media/documents/FINAL_2010_STATE_REPUBLICAN_PARTY_PLATFORM.pdf

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1. This part made me laugh out loud

If It’s Good Enough For Us, It's Good Enough for Them – The Government shall not, by rule or law, exempt any of its members from the provisions of such rule or law.

No members shall be exempt from the rule of law - well except their Republican members of government, right? :eyes:

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2. Great article in the Texas Observer about the TX GOP & platform

Texas Observer 6/22/10
Carrillo’s Ghost
At their convention in Dallas, Texas Republicans are haunted by race.
"Hey press, are you getting this? This is some good shit!”

The shout came from a burly, tie-wearing Republican delegate at the state convention in Dallas. He was standing in line, late on the convention’s final day, to comment on a hotly debated immigration plank. And his wake-up call was warranted. Like most of the 12,000 Republicans in the main auditorium of the blandly cavernous Dallas Convention Center on the second weekend of June, reporters had been lulled nearly to sleep by the squabbling convention’s endless delays. The official proceedings on Saturday hadn’t been gaveled open until 13 minutes before the scheduled close of the convention. For nearly six hours we’d watched endless parades of statewide and congressional candidates and watched video clips from Dr. Zhivago, a Jimmy Stewart Western and a history lesson about the War of 1812. But when debate finally began, Texas Republicans’ race problem bubbled straight to the surface—and things got real thick, real fast.

(snip)
But there is also a struggle for the heart of the Texas Republican Party. Coming into this convention, there were questions about how the new Tea Partiers would fit in. But for a party with a platform that already read at times like a 1960s-era John Birch Society manifesto, there wasn’t really too much suspense about that. The Tea Partiers did help defeat incumbent party chair Cathie Adams, replacing her with Steve Munisteri of Houston, who founded Young Conservatives of Texas. But what dominated the proceedings was the pressing realization—among some—that if Republicans remain overwhelmingly Anglo, they won’t be dominating Texas politics for long. While the Texas GOP appears poised for a fourth straight sweep of statewide offices this November, there is a cloud hanging over it all. Call it Victor Carrillo’s ghost.

(snip)
But soon, Republicans will need some of that vote in the worst way. More than three-fourths of the state’s population growth over the next 30 years is projected to be Hispanic, compared with only 4 percent Anglo growth. The Republican Party doesn’t have a single Hispanic state legislator. The inroads the party made among Tejanos during George W. Bush’s campaigns for governor and president have been eroded by the slogan "secure our borders," and the voter-ID and "tough on immigration" bills floated by Republican legislators. The harsh anti-amnesty language in the state platform doesn’t help.

This year, the platform only got harsher. After heated debate over a proposal to allow military service as a pathway to legal status, the delegates approved a platform that included a call for Arizona-style legislation "empowering state and local law enforcement agencies with authority and resources to detain illegal immigrants." A minority report from the platform committee, opposing mass deportation, never even came up for debate. But the debates that did break out—including a proposal to refer to "illegal immigrants" as "illegal aliens"—exposed the delegates’ anxieties and misunderstandings.

The party of hate is dying in Texas. One day they will really be the dinosaurs.

[tammywammy]

3. I love the dinosaur!

:rofl: