Nice thought ...

... but it'll never happen:

Our platform should be a short, readable, binding document – a platform that means something. We should promise in this platform to pass very specific laws when we have the power. We must insist that anyone who wishes to be considered part of the Republican Party support this platform. We must then, like the Founding Fathers in 1776, publish this platform to all of America. We must make it the heart of the election campaign.

But then Republicans couldn't have nuanced views about things. And read the article .... it's good for a laugh if nothing else.

I mean, yes, I'd like for the Republicans to do something like this, something that's a bit more liberty-oriented. But they won't, because they're just as bad as Dems, just on the other end of the scale (if we're very lucky).

The other part of the problem is that the GOP is never going to let party power get out of the hands of the blue-bloods who currently control the party and into the rank-and-file conservatives who actually hold their noses and vote on the clods presented by the GOP.

Oh no ... that would never do!

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