Today’s reason: his roots are showing.
The Texas GOP are about to commune and during the service they will produce their 2004 campaign platform. We haven’t seen a copy of it, yet, but let’s review the 2000 platform in preparation.
*The party opposes the decriminalization of sodomy….We publicly rebuke judges Chief Justice Murphy and John Anderson, who ruled that the 100 year-old Texas sodomy law is unconstitutional, and ask that all members of the Republican Party of Texas oppose their re-election. *Congress should be urged to exercise its authority under Article III, Sections 1 and 2 of the United States Constitution, and should withhold appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in such cases involving abortion, religious freedom, and all rights guaranteed under the Bill of Rights.
- No homosexual…should have the right to custody or adoption of a minor child, and that visitation with minor children by such persons should be limited to supervised periods.
- The Party believes the minimum wage law should be repealed.
- We urge that the IRS be abolished…
And best of all:
- Any person filing as a Republican candidate for a public or Party office shall be provided a current copy of the Party platform at the time of filing. The candidate shall be asked to read and initial each page of the platform and sign a statement affirming he/she has read the entire platform.
So, if you don’t agree fully with the GOP platform, then you aren’t a Republican.
I don’t yet know why or what it means, but I think Darby Conley and Brooke McEldowney were in some kind of cahoots to do something to the Sunday comics page this weekend.
…something silly and masculine…or maybe silly and emasculating…
Do I have the stick-to-it neccesary to finish one of these? This site is pretty thorough and seems the most complete.