Why don't politicians run on their own platform?

Question

It seems that whenever they have a debate they start pointing fingers at each other, & any time that they get an oppurtunity they grand stand on someone else's short commings. Take for instance Giuliani trying to tell us that the illegal immigrant problems should be dealt with only by the Federal Gov. & that the states & cities should not be enforcing the laws. I say we all have allowed this to happen & we should all be involved in eredicating the problem. We as citizens should communicate with our representitives to tell them where we stand on this issue & that every state & city should get invoved.

Answer 1

The platform for all major parties is decided on by committees who meet before their conventions and craft the language of the platform. And those documents don't mean a thing. That's nothing new.

In my lifetime I've only witnessed one election cycle in which a party put forth something along the line of what is called a "manifesto" in parliamentary systems. That was the "Contract With America" which vaulted the Republicans into control of both houses of the Congress for the first time in five decades. There were ten pieces of legislation which they promised to get through the House within a short time of the start of the session and they did that. A lot of them didn't get past the Senate, but some were signed into law by President William Jefferson Clinton.

As for presidential platforms,  only one President promised to do five things if elected and actually did all five. His name is James K. Polk and he's almost lost in the dustbin of history.

Answer 2

They are all PUPPETS!

Answer 3

well of all the republicans Ron Paul is the only one running on the republican platform , while the others have all veered off, hopefully they will all be lost to the dust bin of history

Answer 4

To say they have a platform would mean they have a base from which they operate.  

Seeing as they're all Flim Flam Men and all they know how to do is lie, cheat, steal, back stab , cork s***w, and dirty deal.

They're crooks, criminals for God's sake!  

I say that thier only base is so crooked it can't be stood upon. They have no platform but that which is so crooked it's base-less and foundation-less.

They make speeches about they must have taxes, and every politician knows what is being done in Alaska. Alaska Pays all their residents with earth rights and doesn’t tax their residents. This makes the politicians liars!

They make speeches to get elected and make promises about what they will do for us. They say nothing about getting every dime of lobby money to do what big biz wants that’s opposite what they promised you they would do. That makes them cheats!

They stole your grandmother’s retirement money from SS. Now you face getting nothing for your SS payments. That makes them thieves!

They tax us, but they know the foreign companies pay no taxes on the goods they sell here. The goods are sold then bought on paper in a foreign port to skate the tax laws. Thus eliminating their profit on paper to cheat the US out of the taxes they owe. This makes them backstabbers!

They take lobby money to put earmarks and pork in every law that passes their desk. Then they do photo ops, and news clips to promote themselves as doing something good for us and America. So they corkscrew us!

They make back room deals and give our tax money to foreigners who build factories with our money. Then they write laws that send our jobs overseas. This makes them dirty dealers!

So lets total all this up. They lie, cheat, steal, backstab, corkscrew, and dirty deal. h**l their Flim Flam Men! Just like in the George C. Scott movie “ The Flim Flam Man”!

They are called the “ Honorable” Senator or Representative. h**l Flim Flam Men have NO honor what so ever! They’re crooks, criminals for God’s sake!

The BBC has film of ALL of them going in and out of Abramoff’s restaurant. That’s THE place in DC to get loaded with lobby money. The BBC has been running this story, and trying to get the US media to run it too. The US media refuses to run the story.

It’s time to take America back! Get registered! VOTE! Vote for anyone that’s not a Democrat or a Republican. They have ALL the power and ALL the control. They must bear ALL the responsibility for their gross mismanagement, abysmally poor judgment, lies, cheating, thefts, back stabs, corkscrews, and dirty deals! It’s time to put THEM in the unemployment line!

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