What is the Republican Party platform? What do they stand for?
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They stand for anything allowing the wealthy and exclusive in our country to remain so whilst the working class will fund the whole thing...the rest is damage control.\n\nThere are other things they stand for, but those things we don't want to write on these PAGES.
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Republican.  Democrats have no agenda or ideas except to criticize.  They call that a strategy?
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Okay... let me just correct your association mix up.  The Christian fundamentalists with their aggressive agendas are overwhelmingly republican. It does NOT hold true that republicans are all Christian fundamentalists interested in pushing agendas on anyone. Case and point, McCain. \n\nAre the christian fundies pushing their agendas on the people of the US?  Of course they are. They always have and they always will. That's what they do. Republicans are more interested in kickstarting the economy by making some of the people richer.  And fortunately, some of them are smart enough to back off of the wedge issues.
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Like I've said before, there is nothing wrong with the Republican party. Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower are proof. It's the virus of Conservatism that is pulling it's name into the mud. Have you noticed that the word "repug" wasn't used to describe Republicans until people like the Bushes, Reagan, and Nixon got into office?
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Republican. Remember... Republicans big business, Democrats big society.
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I consider myself republican and I believe it is but a blatant lie to say that the republican party denies basic rights to gays. They just dont support liberal issues such as same-sex marriage because conservative republicans think that it is immoral and wrong. But that is politics - the interplay of power.
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GOP = Grand Old Party = Republicans
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A liberal Repub is more middle of the road. They often are for abortion rights, stem cell research and separation of Church and State. Giuliani is a mod. Repub. McCain used to be but he got in bed with the right wing evangelists.
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Political Party: Democratic-Republican
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Republicans are for tax cuts for the wealthy, for the death penalty, less regulation for big business, keeping the minimum wage low, for the government to not help poor people if at all possible, pro military, anti universal health care, etc....\n\nDemocrats are for the working people, for the wealth to pay their fair share of taxes, business regulations to protect the working people, raising the minimum wage to a fair level, health care reform, to stop being the policemen of the world, etc...\n\nThe wealthy now have the lowest tax rates since the early 1930's the the Republican government wants to cut their taxes even more.  Meanwhile, we have the biggest national debt in the history of our country! Does that make any sense? (rhetorical question)
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i'm going to attempt to answer this unbiasedly.\n\nthe simplest explanation i ever heard of the difference between the parties is that the republican party believes that the government is more important than the people (or a group of people or an individual), while the democratic party believes that the people are more important than the government.\n\nexamples:\nrepublican party believes in: pro-life, ban on gay marriage, pro big business (against unions, higher minimum wage, basically they are for anything that makes businesses more efficient and moneymaking for the company as a whole, with little regard for the employees), for capital punishment, lower taxes, smaller government (no social programs at all such as welfare or social security), bigger military, against affirmative action, for public displays of religion (as long as its christianity), tend to put much less emphasis on protecting rights and liberties such as freedoms of speech, expression, assembly, etc., and more along those lines.\n\nthe democratic party believes: pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, bigger social government (raises in government spending on welfare, education, social security, public services such as police and fire departments, etc.), drastic cuts in military, anti-big business (very pro-union and believe in protecting workers even at a corporation's expense), pro-affirmative action, anti-public displays of religion, against capital punishment, puts a much greater emphasis on protecting citizens rights with regard to free speech, religion, etc., and more along those lines.\n\nhope that helps.
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Traditionally the Republican party has standed for some great ideals.  They came up as a party that stood for a smaller government with less hands in the everyday lives of people.  They have conservative stances on the many moral issues; anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, etc. \n    In the last five years they have changed that face quite a bit. They are currently fighting for their right to wiretap any person's phone without a warrant or just cause.  They want to fund churches with tax dollars, which sounds nice, but there is a reason church and state are seperated, it is a slippery slope to ending up like a fundamentalist goverment like Afghanistan had in the Taliban.  They also are currently trying to amend the Constitution to deny gay marriage, preaching on the sanctity of marriage, but I haven't heard of any legislation to lower the divorce rate of heterosexual couples, so it's really just a front for the Christian conservatives trying to put the Bible in place of the Constitution.  During the current administration's reign the middle class has gotten poorer and the upper class has gotten more tax breaks.  Also the minimum wage hasn't been raised since Bush took office, but everything has gone up in price considerably.  The average minimum rent for a given city is now more than the monthly take home pay for a person on minimum wage.
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Grand Old Party:\n\nThe Republican Party (often referred to as the GOP, for Grand Old Party) is one of the two major political organizations in the United States' two party system; the Democratic Party is the other. Since 1856 Republicans have won 23 of the 38 presidential elections which they've contested, including 7 of the last 10; eighteen of the twenty-eight U.S. Presidents since 1857 have been Republicans.
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The Republican party is known as the GOP. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the first known reference to the Republican party as the "grand old party" came in 1876. The first use of the abbreviation G.O.P. is dated 1884
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Yes, Humanist.  \n\nYou were wrong.\n\nOnce upon a time, the Republican Party had a good direction, a good vision for America. \n\nThey have betrayed their own vision and betrayed America by thinking that the end justifies the means.
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It stands for the "Grand Old Party" and I suppose when it comes to elections it tells you that if you vote Republican, which is the GOP, you are a traditional person whose voting has roots that go way back in the grand old traditions that this country was founded upon, so it is good PR.
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Republican State   (example United States)\n\nThe party tends to hold both conservative and libertarian stances on social and economic issues respectively.\n\nThe Republican Party, often called the GOP (for "Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Democratic Party. The party was first established in 1854 by Northerners who were opposed to the spread of slavery, and held a Hamiltonian vision for modernizing the nation. In the modern political era, the GOP is usually considered the more socially conservative and economically neoliberal of the two major parties.\n\nThe current President, George W. Bush, is the party leader. Since 2002 the Republican Party has held a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. It also controls a majority of governorships, and a majority of state legislatures.