Leave it to the Republican Party to dishonor the Republican Party...

North Dakota GOP Chairman Gary Emineth said he too has had enough of the never-ending disconnect between what the platform says and what elected Republicans do.

"It is time the party gets involved in policy issues and forces candidates to respond to the platform," Mr. Emineth said. "Frankly the way we view the platform is a joke. We work hard to drive our principles into the platform, then candidates ignore it."

"If the party doesn't move in this direction, we will continue to be irrelevant. Whoever has the larger star power will continue to win, and what they stand for and believe will become less relevant," Mr. Emineth said.

Washington Times

I think it's kind of funny.  Emineth thinks the way for the national GOP party to become less irrelevent is for the party to force its elected officials to abide by the out-of-touch positions written up by the party's radical right-wing fringe in the GOP platform.  Emineth's position seems to be that the Republican Party's real enemies are its elected officials. 

I'm for that.

But maybe the real answer is that the national Republican party should stop letting the right-wing fringe write its platform.

Just a thought.

[Editor's note:  I had a graphic picked out for this story, but couldn't bring myself to post it.  Don't ask.]

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