Group Says GOP Omits Key Conservative Ideals on Platform Web Site

By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
August 24, 2004

Conservative political online activist group RightMarch.com is urging conservatives to make their voices heard by sharing what they believe should be in the Republican platform at the official web site for next week's Republican National Convention in New York.

In an e-mail to supporters on Monday, RightMarch.com remarked that "the Republican Party is asking for input from you and I [sic] to help set the party's agenda."

"That's right, it's time once again to write the GOP Platform -- the foundational document that declares to the world, 'THIS is what Republicans stand for,'" RightMarch.com asserted in the e-mail.

Reminding their conservative supporters that this only happens every four years, RightMarch.com said it is a battle "between the conservative base of the party, and the 'big tent' of liberals, neocons, and good ol' 'RINOs' -- Republicans In Name Only."

Describing some obstacles facing conservative Republicans regarding the GOP Platform this year, RightMarch.com said the convention web site which allows "ordinary folks" an opportunity to "give input on what we think should be the most important issues for the Republican Party this year" conveniently omits any mention of "pro-life," "pro-Second Amendment," "immigration," "family or marriage," and "religious liberty," staple issues which the Republican Party has stood for strongly since the late conservative Republican President Ronald Reagan was in office during the 1980s (web site).

RightMarch.com states these are "the issues that are most important to the GOP's conservative base!"

"What are these people thinking?" inquired RightMarch.com. "Without its conservative base, there would be no Republican Party to begin with!"

Giving them "the benefit of the doubt," RightMarch.com said maybe the Republican Party made a "mistake" and "forgot a few things."

"But let's also make sure they know what really is important to the 'silent majority' of Americans -- the ones who will determine whether the GOP wins or loses this year," RightMarch expressed.

Because many issues were omitted from the drop-down menu of 20 choices, RightMarch.com says its supporters should select the "Other" and write-in the issues that concern them the most so "the GOP doesn't abandon its conservative grassroots in its party platform."