GOP Platform Woes

[Pommer]

The “Grand Old Party” pooped out on revamping their platform for 2020, opting instead to use the 2016 platform with some tweaks.

• The president’s son-in-law and top adviser has told confidants he wants to shrink the GOP’s extensive platform of policy beliefs and principles down to a single card that fits in people’s pockets. That’s a huge change. The 2016 platform [URL='https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/static/home/data/platform.pdf']runs 58 pages

• — the product of extensive debate and heated negotiations.
• Kushner told colleagues he wanted “something like the 10 principles we believe in,” per two sources familiar with his comments. He asked Stepien to find historical examples of Republican platforms that look more like a “mission statement,” per a source familiar with one of their meetings.
• Another source familiar with the discussions pointed to the GOP platform of 1856 as an example of a platform that is similarly short. The source used this example to argue that the idea of a one-page platform isn’t so new or radical after all.

Running on 2016’s platform probably won’t matter to the average Trump supporter and it saves all the work that goes into having a solid, principled document to guide one’s party through the shoals of the Presidential Campaign.
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https://ballotpedia.org/The_Republican_Party_Platform,_2020

 

[Andrewn]

The 1856 is good enough. A new platform is not needed for those who would vote for him even if he "stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shot somebody."

 

[Kentonio]

 

[Bobber]

The 1856 is good enough. A new platform is not needed for those who would vote for him even if he "stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shot somebody."

So let me respond by quoting your signature,

“A person who does not doubt is a danger to others”. Gregorio Marañón, Spanish doctor

So I'm not sure I have faith that your statement at the very top is correct. I don't want to be a danger to others.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

You just can't go wrong with the basics.

One Country.

One People.

One President.

 

[wing2000]

Kushner told colleagues he wanted “something like the 10 principles we believe in,”

1. Donald Trump is great. (repeat 9x)

 

[Albion]

Running on 2016’s platform probably won’t matter to the average Trump supporter and it saves all the work that goes into having a solid, principled document to guide one’s party through the shoals of the Presidential Campaign.

Are you suggesting that the GOP is merely imitating the approach taken by the Democratic Party in its convention last week?

 

[wing2000]

Who will lead the "Lock her up" chants?

 

[wing2000]

Are you suggesting that the GOP is merely imitating the approach taken by the Democratic Party in its convention last week?

Try to stay on focus. This is MAGA week!

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Who will lead the "Lock her up" chants?

Well, it won't be Kellyanne...

 

[DaisyDay]

1. Donald Trump is great. (repeat 9x)

No, that’s not right. It should be:
1. Donald Trump is the greatest ever in the history of the world!!! (Repeat 99x).

 

[Bobber]

1. Donald Trump is great. (repeat 9x)

So what's the difference between that and the Dems saying over and over,

Joe is a good guy, Joe is a good guy!

 

[Belk]

So what's the difference between that and the Dems saying over and over,

Joe is a good guy, Joe is a good guy!

That's not what the Dems are saying. They are saying "Joe is a good guy, and not Trump". The subtext is important.

 

[wing2000]

So what's the difference between that and the Dems saying over and over,

Joe is a good guy, Joe is a good guy!

RNC’s announced line-up features Trump speaking every night in the prime-time slot.

 

[Albion]

That's not what the Dems are saying. They are saying "Joe is a good guy, and not Trump". The subtext is important.

We're agreed then.

All that the party is offering is "we'll give you someone other than Trump."

So "Vote early and vote often!!"

 

[Arcangl86]

Are you suggesting that the GOP is merely imitating the approach taken by the Democratic Party in its convention last week?

You mean the same convention where they both edited and approved a new platform?

 

[Albion]

You mean the same convention where they both edited and approved a new platform?

The point was that the Democrats did not even touch upon our most pressing national concerns during their convention and chose instead to offer the viewers mainly meaningless generalities like "Hope" and "Light."

If for some reason the Republicans have chosen to avoid re-arguing all of their platform planks, partly because the Coronavirus' limitations make lengthy debates as per usual almost impossible...

there is no story here.

 

[Nokomis]

I'm editing my post because it was off-topic.

 

[Albion]

This post removed because of the preceding edit.

 

[Nokomis]

All that the party is offering is "we'll give you someone other than Trump."

This statement reminds me of the Republican Party during the 2016 presidential election... "We'll give you someone other than Hillary." I recall some frustrated conservatives who admitted that they voted for Trump because they absolutely detested Hillary Clinton, liberalism, and the Democratic Party.