From: thyat@sdf.lonestar.org (Tom Hyatt)
Subject: Re: The Republicans are confusing me again...
Organization: sdf Public Access UNIX, Dallas--unrestricted free shell access
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 06:20:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.102524.25846@u.washington.edu> cortez@milton.u.washington.edu (Tom Warner) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.050031.7745@athena.mit.edu> howie@athena.mit.edu (Howard D Lewis) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug13.034255.3899@athena.mit.edu> dks@athena.mit.edu (dks) writes:
>>>
>>>Friends!
>>>
>>>It's happening again: Republican logic is once more too much for my
>>>feeble mind.  
>>>
>>>When anti-choice Democratic Governor Casey and his fellow believers
>>>were not given a chance to speak at the Democratic Convention last
>>>month, we were told that the Democrats were afraid to face the issue.
>>>Never mind that the anti-choice movement subsumed only about fifteen
>>>percent of the delegates elected to the Democratic Convention, they
>>>should have been given a chance to speak out, we were told.
>>>
>>>[Cut to Houston, barely a month later.]
>>>
>>>The Republican platform now calls for a Constitutional Amendment that
>>>would ban *all* abortions, even in cases of rape and incest.  More
>>>than *fifty-five* percent of the delegates elected to the Republican
>>>Convention disagree with this position.  How many of these dissenters
>>>will be allowed to speak to the Convention?  You guessed it: NONE!
>>
>>
>> Governor Bill Weld of Massachussetts will be speaking at the Republican 
>> convention.  He is rather solidly pro-choice.  This is better than
>> the Democrats which allowed no one to speak on pro-life issues.
>>
>>
>Just because he's speaking doesn't mean he's speaking on pro-choice
>issues. Last newspaper article I read said the Republicans for Choice
>had asked to have the issue of whether the support for an anti-abortion
>amendment ought to be removed from the platform discussed at the convention,
>and were told sorry, no, just forget about it.
>


I was asking a couple Republican friends if they would be duplicating the 
mistake that the powers-that-be at the Democratic convention made by literally
censoring Gov. Casey and his followers.  The answer that they gave was that 
they were fairly sure that opposing viewpoints would be allowed on the floor.
In seeing this, I say that both parties are making bigtime errors.

On a similar note:  I was wondering exactly *when* each of the national party
conventions became a week-long coronation party for each side's candidate?
I seem to remember (as recently as 1984) situations of really invigorating 
floor fights over various platform planks.  Nowadays I seem to only see the
drumbeating of each "established" party platform, with very little _REAL_
drama involved.  I wonder if the delagates realized how much they have actually
been taken out of the loop.

Harkening for the days of old......

Tom H.

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