I would like to thank a member of the Platform Committee for making a most accurate and telling observation that several Conservative members of the Platform Committee were not in attendance for the last several meetings. Now we know that without the Republican Conservatives present, the Platform Committee’s remaining members abandoned or provided contradictory support for the Social Issues and brought forth a document that could have been printed from the Moderate Party’s website.
The vote to send the Platform to the full membership was 8-8 with the Platform Chairman breaking the tie in favor of sending the document forward. There was an attempt to keep this in Committee and keep this issue out of the spotlight that we now find ourselves in.
Issues such as Life are supported in the opening paragraph and then in the closing paragraph the proposed platform stated there is no Party view on Social Issues. Well, if you are trying to run with that as a Platform, we will continue to be pummeled by the electorate for being incompetent.
Other issues like costly Social Service systems and illegal aliens never made it to the Platform. Other items like Voter Initiative were shot down. The proposed Platform looked more like the Moderate Party – If that is indeed what the RIGOP wants to put forth, why have a Republican Party.
If you are Pro-Abortion, Pro-Big Government, Pro-Socialism, Pro-Big Government Health Care, and Pro-Fascism now that we own two car companies and an Insurance Company, there is a Party for you called the Democrat Party.
If you wish to have no opinion on Social issues, even though they cost Rhode Islanders and businesses in Rhode Island hundreds of millions of dollars per year, then there is the Moderate Party for you to tag along with.
I hear the soft-spine opinions that why should I push my beliefs on someone else. The answer is simple. We are a society of rules and laws that places someone’s opinion on the backs of another. Without such opinions in place (The Constitution), we would live in Anarchy. Our Country is supposed to be based on the rule of law of the majority, not the Politically Correct.
It is time for politicians to stop being politicians (oh how am I going to sneak my way into office disguising who I am), and become Statesmen: The type of Statesmen that founded the United States of America; The same type of Statesmen who wrote the Constitution that put our Rights as Americans to paper. There are no Rights in the Constitution to allow any person to take the legally earned money and/or assets from one American and give this money or asset to another American or entity, where such entity may or may not be American.
If you live in Rhode Island and you are Pro-Constitution, or Pro-Life, or Pro-Second Amendment, or Pro-Traditional Marriage or Pro-Smaller and more efficient government, or Pro-Legal Immigration and Pro-Immigration Law Enforcement of the laws on the books, or Pro-Capitalism, where do you go if the Rhode Island Republican Party is not willing to take a stand as the other two Parties have already said they are not interested.
I agree with the statement that any “Republican” who wishes to add their opinions to the discussion should send the RIGOP an e-mail (lvargas [at] rigop [dot] org).
Voters who are Independents, Cool Moose, Green Party, Libertarians, Moderates, and Democrats have no role or opinion in establishing the Platform for the Rhode Island Republican Party.
Raymond T. McKay
President, Rhode Island Republican Assembly
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