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According to NRO’s Stephen Spruiell, the Republicans would just like the past thirty or so years of Republican policies to be flushed down the memory hole:
Anyway, earlier today I got a sneak preview of a draft version of the 2008 GOP Platform. Over the next few days, platform-committee members will be discussing, revising and voting on parts of the platform, with the goal of producing a finished document by the end of the week. The draft should be available online sometime tomorrow morning, and I’ll post it as soon as I can. For now, I can tell you the following:
1. It is shorter than the 2004 GOP Platform, by half.
2. The 2000 platform referenced George W. Bush over 40 times.The 2004 platform referenced him over 200 times The 2008 draft platform references Bush zero times. It references John McCain zero times. I saw Reagan’s name a couple of times, but that’s about it.
3. The 2008 draft platform appears to be more principles-driven and less policy-driven. It is obviously much less personality driven. The 2004 document was full of references to Bush and Bush policies. As I mentioned above, the 2008 draft platform doesn’t contain any of that. It is more a declaration of what the Republican Party should stand for in the future.
John McCain: hasn’t even lost yet and he’s already been purged.
That’s gotta hurt…
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I’m sure it will be something along the lines of: POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,
(continue the same policies),POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,
POW,POW,POW,POW,POW,
I am willing to flush all memories of the past 30 years as long as we can flush the actual Republican Party and all the people responsible for those policies as well. A world without Newt, Delay, Bush, Cheney, et al., would be a wonderful thing indeed.
They really seem to be going with a theme of “Vote John McCain — Even we don’t like him much!” With a corollary of, “Remember all those years we bragged about popularity and wanting to have a beer with our guy? Well, forget it. Now popularity is the harbringer of evil.”
Shorter Repub platform;
“The last few guys fucked up things and good. Sorry about that. But hey, we got this old guy now and…look over there, a shiny object!”
“Remember all those years we bragged about popularity and wanting to have a beer with our guy? Well, forget it. Now popularity is the harbringer of evil.”
That is exactly what they are saying. I simply cannot believe there are enough stupid Americans that will buy the BS that popularity is now evil, or that Barack and Michelle Obama are elitists. If the American voter can be swayed that easily, we are freakin’ doomed.
Keep the memories – we’ll need them to prevent repeats.
I got their platform in three words – We Got Nothing.
This is the best:
“The 2000 platform referenced George W. Bush over 40 times.The 2004 platform referenced him over 200 times The 2008 draft platform references Bush zero times. It references John McCain zero times.”
From a PR perspective, it’s like the New Coke disaster times 1000. Of course, Coke had a huge advantage, since they had a popular product to start with. The Repubs, not so much to work with. Hence the emphasis on the rat-fucking.
Throw in a handful of 911 911 911 911’s and I think you got it.
And I must say I’ve enjoyed seeing the billboard that will great the rethugs as they descend upon Minneapolis: http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..hread-909/
“And I must say I’ve enjoyed seeing the billboard that will great the rethugs as they descend upon
MinneapolisSt Paul:”Minneapolis? Eh, don’t care what happens there. But I’m very upset that the rethugs are decending on my fair town, Saint Paul! Betty won her last election 70%-30%. St Paul is a very DFL* town!
*DFL = Democratic Farmer Labor. (local stuff)
Oops, sorry Mr. Reality; my error. I can only point to the craziness currently happening in my city and say it confused me greatly.
I have been keeping an eye on the Naderites locally. Ralph and running mate are having a “big” event this Weds at a location far from the convention (for some odd reason…), but apparently tickets aren’t selling that well. I wonder why that is? I’m going to go just so I can collect anecdotes and see just who the hell these people are, plus find out who their dealer is.
“More principles-driven”?
Hell yeah I bet that’s a lot shorter than the 2004 GOP platform document. How much paper does it take to say “Steal everything that isn’t nailed down and send non-Aryans packing”.