The tea party types have never had any pretense whatsoever of being part of the Republican party. Never. They say what they mean and they mean what they say. They don’t come in, use the party apparatus, then go run as an independent candidate who then spends their whole time attacking the Republican. I just wish the Christian Alliance types were so forthcoming.

And again, my platform is the Declaration of Independence, U.S Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Iowa Constitution. The Republican party platform is a long confusing and often contradictory mess of resolutions passed without any legal or constitutional scrutiny. It is a changing document ratified by a very small minority of people and subject to a process that can be highly manipulated.

On top of that, each level of the party has their own platform adding to the existing tangle. How could anyone expect to hold their representative to it with any kind of serious face? The whole sacredness of the platform concept has been the push of, again, a small number of Christian alliance types to tack on their extra-constitutional legalistic requirements on Republican representatives in order to wield control over them. Nobody is being fooled here.

Until we get a more sound result out of our platform process, I am going to continue to reject that. I am going to continue to reject the Christian alliance types that use the Party to their convenience then bolt when their candidates lose fair and square to the Will of the People, which they refuse to honor, while expecting a candidate or official to honor a very flawed platform produced by system that requires a much smaller and selective majority vote of people at the conventions.

The idea of platform purity and purity in general that is being pushed by the CA crowd is a very devious and disingenuous concept being put forth on the Republican party. Alot of that ‘purity’ wouldn’t pass constitutional muster, and a fair amount of it is flat out religious socialism. I tend to find the CA types are more than willing to use govt to advance their agenda to get what they want. I’m simply not buying it.

Most of us see thru the christian coalition efforts to tack on their extra set of dogma points tacked on to our founding documents. What I don’t understand is that they are more than willing to follow the principle of majority rule and will of the people in that process when it benefits them, but ignore it in the primary. They expect elected officials to support the platform, but they as elected Republican committee people and officers refuse to support the results of the primary election.

That’s what I’m talking about when I talk about integrity.