10 most absurd things in GOP state platforms

They want to make being a homosexual illegal? :eye-poppi

The Democrats in Minnesota think nuclear isn't viable! :boggled:

That's it! We're done. Everybody is insane! Let's eat blue and paint everything cheese! "Down" is now potato chips and "up" is now cantankerous.
 
defaultdotxbe said:
and to throw cognitive dissonance in there:

separation of powers....except when the courts are wrong


BTW isnt corporations falling under the definition of "person" kindof the whole point of corporations? so they can hold property and be held accountable for stuff?
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Yeah, but a couple of things here make this less insane than complaining about Sharia Law while posting the Ten Commandments in the court house, exclusively.

First, corporations are entities created by the legislature. Therefore, assuming that this would be a legislative issue is at least not absurd, even after the SCOTUS case. And they seem to be pretty clear that, in the alternative, they would be happy with a constitutional amendment to address this issue. That would be the normal route for disagreeing with a SCOTUS ruling on a constitutional issue. Sounds more reasonable than outlawing the NWO, no?

Second, corporations can't be held accountable in the same way that people may. They can not be arrested or imprisoned. Also, they never die of natural causes, although I guess you can kill them. Either way, they are not persons under the law in many ways that you and I would find very important.
 
Travis said:
They want to make being a homosexual illegal? :eye-poppi

The Democrats in Minnesota think nuclear isn't viable! :boggled:

That's it! We're done. Everybody is insane! Let's eat blue and paint everything cheese! "Down" is now potato chips and "up" is now cantankerous.
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One yellow card and you're off to the races . . .:)
 
rwguinn said:
Well, there's a totally unbiased site...
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And yet it still manages to accurately describe the platforms. Where they didn't provide direct links I was able to track most down using searches on exact language. So, considering your dismissal on the charge of bias is inaccurate, are you willing to reconsider?

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rwguinn said:
These are not actual planks in the platform, but proposals for planks.
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Hmmm... nope:

Alaska platform

Iowa platform

Maine platform

Minnesota platform

Montana platform

South Carolina platform (pdf)

Texas platform (pdf)

Wisconsin platform

Wyoming platform (pdf)

With the exception of the Texas one each of those links goes to the state GOP site, and as far as I can tell checking the website all of them have been adopted since June at the most recent cases.

Again, in the face of facts pointing straight to the proverbial horses' mouths stating these things, are you willing to reconsider your opinion and possibly comment on the content of the platforms rather than dismissing pointing them out as inaccurate or the statements themselves as not part of the actual platforms?

kthnxbai
 
dudalb said:
I have a theory that the party out of power tends to be more crackpot then the one in power.
What concerns me is the rise of Conspiracy Theories in the GOP Platforms. That is something new..and dangerous. CTs to me are Canaries in the Mine.
It's worrying to me since I feel we need a reasonable conservative party to keep the liberals in line, just like we need a reasonable Liberal party to keep the conservatives in line. The GOP is rapidly going bonkers on us, and I am appalled by that...though for different reasons then a lot of "progressives" have.
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I don't know if you count me as a "progressive" or not, but what do you think appalls me about it that would be different from what appalls you?

Personally, it appalls me that a political party would pander so blatantly and obviously to the type of dangerous conspiracy theories that create dangerous crackpots like Tim McVeigh.
 
Alferd_Packer said:
Wind turbines are major bird killers
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Not really.

http://bird-habitats.suite101.com/article.cfm/wind_turbines_and_bird_fatalities
If these figures are correct, then US wind power generation killed about 7000 birds in 2006.

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If Sovacool is right, power generated from fossil fuels killed more than 14 million birds in 2006, and a move from fossil fuel power generation to wind farms would actually save many birds.

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For further comparison, the National Wind Coordinating Committee estimates the following annual bird deaths from various causes in the United States:

* 98 million to 980 million fatal collisions with buildings and windows
* 60 million to 80 million deaths caused by automobiles
* 4 million to 50 million fatal encounters with communications towers
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Steve S
 
How do they intend to enforce their anti-gay, anti-porn, and anti-non-missionary-sex laws without imposing taxes?
 
McHrozni said:
Nah. It's not my intention to compare DNC and GOP with each other to declare which one is stupider, but to show neither is perfect. No party is. GOP is certainly becoming way goofier than it was 5-10 years ago or so, and DNC much less so. That too is a fairly normal process in politics. Supporting one party exclusively for no apparent reason is likewise, stupid.

McHrozni
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Hey, I actually agree with that entire post!

defaultdotxbe said:
i tried to find some stuff, but all i found was that apparently a lot of state dem parties dont post their platforms where people can find them easily

guess the idea is people should elect them and see what happens to find out their platform
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Alternatively, perhaps the state Democratic Parties, generally displaying much less "party unity" than the Republicans, rely more on individual candidates to present their own platforms rather than expecting them to conform to a single party platform.

That's complete conjecture on my part, though.
 
Stupid is as stupid does. The GOP still thinks Reagan was a great president and that supply-side ecconomics works and that tax cuts for the rich will spur investment in industrial infrastructure and put people to work.

I can only think of one word for that idea. "Stupid."
 
Ladewig said:
I am going to argue this one. Yes, it is as absurd as I think it is. Snowballing or no snowballing - it is very much absurd that the Maine Republicans wrote down their opposition and actually voted against a one world government.
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It is absurd, but also utterly unimportant, imho. It's a minor waste of time and nothing more. The specific example has no chance of snowballing anywhere sane, but a similar action - at a lower level than issue requires - could snowball for a right issue.

I have a theory that the party out of power tends to be more crackpot then the one in power.
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This has certainly been true for the past couple of election cycles.

What concerns me is the rise of Conspiracy Theories in the GOP Platforms. That is something new..and dangerous. CTs to me are Canaries in the Mine.
It's worrying to me since I feel we need a reasonable conservative party to keep the liberals in line, just like we need a reasonable Liberal party to keep the conservatives in line. The GOP is rapidly going bonkers on us, and I am appalled by that...though for different reasons then a lot of "progressives" have.
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Well, I don't know. They do seem pretty desperate right now, for good reason too, and I sort of hope it's because they pander to the lunatic vote. As absurd as this is, they could rack up a few extra percent there, which could decide some elections. There are far more lunatics out there than we wish to admit.

If GOP really does go bonkers, it will either split into a sane and less than sane part, or be replaced by a different right-leaning party. I, for one, could care less, as long as there is a sufficient opposition to the DNC, which is able and willing to screw us all every bit as much as the GOP ever was.

McHrozni
 
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ravdin said:
How do they intend to enforce their anti-gay, anti-porn, and anti-non-missionary-sex laws without imposing taxes?
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Oh, if you allow school prayer and put the Ten Commandments on the courthouse lawn, that'll take care of all that stuff. Those are God's laws, just put them back on the books and leave it to Him to enforce them.
 
ZirconBlue said:
Alternatively, perhaps the state Democratic Parties, generally displaying much less "party unity" than the Republicans, rely more on individual candidates to present their own platforms rather than expecting them to conform to a single party platform.

That's complete conjecture on my part, though.
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Pretty accurate, I would say. The typical Democratic gathering is a cat roundup.
 
Travis said:
They want to make being a homosexual illegal? :eye-poppi

The Democrats in Minnesota think nuclear isn't viable! :boggled:

That's it! We're done. Everybody is insane! Let's eat blue and paint everything cheese! "Down" is now potato chips and "up" is now cantankerous.
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lol
well done
 
so if the individual dems platform is more important than the party platform does that mean i can mention dennis kucinich's bill to outlaw chemtrails because they are space-based scorched earth weapons?
 
defaultdotxbe said:
so if the individual dems platform is more important than the party platform does that mean i can mention dennis kucinich's bill to outlaw chemtrails because they are space-based scorched earth weapons?
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To be fair to Deninis the Menace, he dropped that language out of the bill once it was pointed out to him (what, you didn't think that politicians actually write the bills that they sponsor, did you?)
 
Alferd_Packer said:
To be fair to Deninis the Menace, he dropped that language out of the bill once it was pointed out to him (what, you didn't think that politicians actually write the bills that they sponsor, did you?)
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It would be nice if the at least read some of the shorter ones.
 
Form the Alaska platform:

L. We oppose inflation through balancing the budget and trade surplus rather than expanding the money supply.
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Somehow I don't think they phrased that correctly.
 
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