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"GOP platform through the years shows the party's shift

Posted: Sep 6, 2012

This article from the Washington Post is easy reading, very interesting, not offensive to anyone, and gives a quick historic overview through our lifetimes. As it says, "What it means to be a Republican has changed enormously over the past half-century."

The platforms of 1980 and 1992 are the biggies, the big "pivot points."

The watershed platform of 1980 introduces tax cuts and an increasingly critical attitude toward government. “The Republican Party declares war on government overregulation,” it says.

I imagine a lot of us here kind of remember those elections, like President Reagan's voters-mandate sweep into office.

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