{"id":12586,"date":"2012-11-02T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=12586"},"modified":"2012-11-02T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T10:00:18","slug":"comparing-the-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/11\/comparing-the-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing the platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Back during the Democratic National Convention, we did a post on the Democratic platform, promising that we would do the same for the Republican platform.\u00a0 I never quite got around to that at the time, and we just have a few days before the election, so I realize I had better get that done.\u00a0 I know that people say party platforms don\u2019t really matter, but I do think they show us something about the parties and their ideology, as well as what tenets the wide range of party members can agree to.<\/p>\n

So here is the\u00a0 Republican Platform<\/a>, entitled We Believe in America.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>It defies excerpting, but here are the major headings, which you can read via the links.<\/p>\n