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DEL.ICIO.USGOP platform planks carry a few splinters for McCain
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
While Democrats close in on the apex of their convention this week, Republicans in Minneapolis are still hammering out their platform — which in many ways will be at odds with their presidential candidate.
This from Bloomberg News, via the Denver Post:
Like the 2004 document, this year’s text opposes the use of embryonic stem cells for medical research. McCain supports such research and has said he would reverse Bush’s ban on federal funding to develop treatments using embryonic stem cells.
The 2008 text supports a constitutional amendment “that fully protects marriage as a union of a man and a woman, so that judges cannot make other arrangements equivalent to it.”
Earlier this month McCain, 71, said that he believes marriage is between a man and a woman. Still, he supports same-sex civil unions and would let states decide the marriage question.
One prominent Georgian is involved in the GOP process. House Speaker pro tem Mark Burkhalter of north Fulton County, a former Mitt Romney supporter, is chairman of a platform subcommittee responsible for “government reform and spending, including fiscal responsibility and the federal budget, limited government, entitlement reform, domestic disaster response, and related issues.”
So he’ll have the easy stuff. Like the official Republican party position on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
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Comments
By Copyleft
August 27, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this
So they’re trying to craft a platform that will still appeal to the snubbed far right… and they have to go around their own candidate to do it?
Oh, this is hilarious to watch. The GOP is absolutely doomed and they know it.
By aw
August 28, 2008 1:48 AM | Link to this
Wednesday the Repubs were debating how to classify families and were leaning to husband, wife, child. They were not recognizing single parent families as families. I wonder how the millions of grandparents raising children would be recognized by repubs. Guess they are just not in the 21 Century where families are made many diferent forms. Will be iontersting to see how this came out in their platform for vote on Mopnday.
By Robert
August 31, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this
Not entirely snubbed, eh buddy?