So Exactly Which Provisions of the Texas GOP Platform Does George Bush Disagree With?

The corporatist Republicans give the platforms and the core ideological issues to the conservatives, pat them on the back at convention time and then move into office with the welcome mat for Big Business lobbyists and their slushfunds.

The Texas Republican Party demands that Washington repeal NAFTA and GATT and get out of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations. It is adamant against any gathering, accumulation and dissemination of personal data and information on law-abiding citizens by business and governments. It wants "all citizens" to be free from government surveillance of their electronic communications.

In a slam against Attorney General John Ascroft, the Texas Party believes that "the current greatest threat to our individual liberties is overreaching government controls established under the guise of preventing terrorism."

Remember, this is the Texas state Republican Party. It is President Bush's Party -- the organization that launched his political career to the Governorship and beyond. His friends and political allies run this Party.

EL - Damn, I could like that party if it weren't for the people in it. And the fact that as Ralph Nadar says, the people who really run the party are the big corporationists who ignore their platform.

It has to do with the double life of the Republican Party -- the main party dominated by corporatists and the adjunct Party relying on conservatives and libertarians to produce the margin of votes for victory in elections.