Since the GOP didn't talk about their platform at the RNC... we should simply do it for them.
It's simple.... someone should walk out to the podium holding the document below and just read straight from it from some pertinent sections.
CHANGING MEDICARE TO VOUCHERCARE:
The first step is to move the two programs away from their current unsustainable defined-benefit entitlement model to a fiscally sound defined contribution model.
ELIMINATING CAPITAL GAINS TAXES:
Eliminate the taxes on interest, dividends, and capital gains altogether for lower and middle-income taxpayers;
NOTE how they don't mention... that yes the rich will get that too. So they will pay NO TAXES. I don't think capital gains are a big issue for the Middle Class and the poor. Do you?
BANNING ABORTION:
We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children
PRIVATIZING SOCIAL SECURITY: (yes it's in there)
While no changes should adversely affect any current or near-retiree, comprehensive reform should address our society’s remarkable medical advances in longevity and allow younger workers the option of creating their own personal investment accounts as supplements to the system
ON HEALTCARE:
We believe that taking care of one’s health is an individual responsibility
REPEALING DODD-FRANK (and thus the CPA)
But no peril justifies the regulatory impact of Obamacare on the practice of medicine, the Dodd-Frank Act on financial services, or the EPA’s and OSHA’s overreaching regulation agenda. A Republican Congress and President will repeal the first and second, and rein in the third.
Just read it all... and they will weep.
2012 Gop Platform
1:25 PM PT: People have been saying in the comments that they should have someone act it out, or have celebrities read it, or worse yet read it to a chair.
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY DISAGREE.
This needs to be (as the President said) played straight. This is serious business people. We need to treat it serious.
Someone needs to just hold up the GOP Platform and very seriously read a couple of their positions... explain what it would mean to people... and then let everyone know the Democratic way.
No need to get cut. Just compare and contrast. Tell people the truth.
WE NEED TO BE THE ADULTS IN THE ROOM!
p.s. - Thanks for the recs.