RNC Chair Priebus: GOP platform is not necessarily

This is a bold strategy indeed for the party creed rollout….a candidate disclaimer stating they are not bound to abide by party principles.  I guess it’s a handy escape hatch for a nominee who HAS no core beliefs.  See, the party wants to run on the personhood plank, but they just don’t want to damage their candidates’ future political careers too much by making them say it out loud, in case they need to recycle the VEEP candidate in 2016.  That Reince Priebus sure is a crafty little devil.  Here’s the quote:

"I think as far as the details of some of these things, like an exception for rape or life of the mother, these are not uncommon differences that candidates have and don't share some of the detail on some of those exceptions. This is the platform of the Republican Party; it's not the platform of Mitt Romney."

OK.  I guess another “just trust us” details taboo is to be expected.  Scott Brown is having fits.

For those con posters below, so preoccupied with blaming Obama for the abortion “non-issue,” who claim it has never been on the platform, an update on how that whole draft process is unfolding is in order.  Here’s a sample of three tidbits of things to come at next week’s Tampa hoedown: 

Plank #1:  The personhood plank, formally called the Human Life Amendment, calls for a ban on abortion, without mention of customary exceptions for victims of rape or incest.  The dems, quite naturally, are calling it the Akin Amendment:

“Faithful to the ‘self-evident’ truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed.  We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.”

Exceptions to the “sanctity” of life for rapist and victim zygotes would seem a tad on the oxymoronic side, would they not? 

Plank #2:  In a nod to Michele Bachmann’s Islamophobic witch hunt, and so as not ignore the imaginary threats or diss large numbers of conspiracy theorists amongst the ranks, the GOP panel proposes a plank, supporting a ban on foreign law, aimed at Shariah, Islamic religious law many conservatives are convinced is secretly creeping into the fabric of our society (the horror!). 

Plank #3:  Ethnic profiling ala Arizona’s immigration laws, parts of which failed to withstand SCOTUS scrutiny last summer, are now enshrined in the Kobach Amendment, which states these laws should be "encouraged, not attacked." It also calls for the federal government to drop its lawsuits against ALEC's brainchild, ongoing in Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina and Utah.  Putting former primary candidate Rick "You Don't Have a Heart" Perry on notice, it also calls for withholding federal funding for any universities that provide in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants as well as "sanctuary cities" that refuse to enforce state and federal laws on immigration, and for the government to complete construction of a fence along the Mexican border that Congress authorized in 2006.  Just what Hispanic Southern Floridians want to hear.  H-towners, myself included, find the sanctuary cities part particularly interesting, since Mayor Annise Parker has been none too keen on seeing our economic infrastructure crumble out from under us.

Textbook case of a major political party, running amok.  Meanwhile, Hurricane Isaac plans to be bearing down of the Tampa coast, just in time for the RNC kickoff.  Bingo card is standing by and plenty of munchies stashed and ready to roll.