Since longtime political operative Barbara Comstock decided against attending Trump-mania in Cleveland this year, we were gracious enough to send her a convention package with everything she missed. During the 2012 Republican Convention, Barbara Comstock spoke for Mitt Romney. This year, Barbara Comstock missed out on all the fun because she desperately doesn’t want to remind Northern Virginia’s moderate voters how closely she aligns with Donald Trump’s reckless agenda. The platform adopted at the convention by the party of Trump is troubling for Comstock and includes Trump’s central policy proposal – construction of a border wall. The platform also includes other troubling ideas – like discriminatory conversion therapy pushed by the conservative Family Research Council.
The care package includes:
- The 2016 Republican Platform that Trump will ask Barbara Comstock to implement
- Washington Post Editorial: The GOP’s backward-looking agenda
- New York Times Editorial: The Most Extreme Republican Platform in Memory
- Comstock policy & Republican platform side by side table.
You can track this FedEx package by using this tracking number: 783624612308. Also keep in mind that this is how Comstock thinks we should track immigrants.
“We know career political operative Barbara Comstock is hurt dearly by having to avoid the Republican Convention this year because she doesn’t want Northern Virginians to know how close her policies are to Donald Trump’s,” said Jermaine House of the DCCC. “This package will help Barbara Comstock get over the grief of having to stay home while Donald Trump and her reckless House Republican colleagues put the Party’s dysfunction on full display.”
Comstock Similarities To RNC Platform
| Opposed To Women’s Healthcare: The Republican platform builds on what was included in the 2012 platform, calling for completely defunding Planned Parenthood and establishing a so-called “personhood” amendment to the Constitution: “We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to children before birth.” The Republican platform mentions abortion some three dozen times and the anti-choice Susan B Anthony List called it the “strongest pro-life platform in the Republican Party’s history.”
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Barbara Comstock Has Now Voted Five Times To Defund Planned Parenthood. [Vote #505, 9/18/15; Vote #504, 9/18/15; Vote #527, 9/30/15; 10/7/15; Vote #568, 10/23/15; Vote #6, 1/6/16]
Comstock Voted For Personhood Bill To Put Restrictions On Common Forms of Birth Control. In February 2012, Comstock voted in favor of HB 1, a so-called personhood bill, over strong opposition to the bill. Opponents argued that the broad measure could prohibit birth control. The bill passed 66 to 32 in the Virginia House of Delegates. [Washington Post, 2/13/12; HB 1, 2012 Session, 2/14/12]
Comstock Endorsed By Susan B. Anthony List. [SBA List, accessed 7/19/16]
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| Anti-Equality & Insulting Single Parents: The Republican platform embraces notions of “traditional” heterosexual marriage, shockingly referring to it as “natural” marriage. The platform falsely claims children not of “traditional two-parent households” are less healthy, more likely to use drugs and more likely to commit crimes. While clearly out of step with the public, party activists and the social conservative wing of the Party continue to exert their influence to make sure that language included in the platform rejects a more open, inclusive approach to LGBT equality.
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Comstock “Has Consistently Opposed Same-Sex Marriage.” “The main line of attack on Comstock from Marshall and Wasinger is that she is insufficiently socially conservative. She has consistently opposed same-sex marriage and abortion, and among her supporters are such undoubted social conservatives as Mary Ellen Bork, Eugene Scalia, and Rick Santorum.” [National Review,2/17/14] |
| Opposing Commonsense Gun Safety Measures: The Republican platform was written to oppose commonsense no fly, no buy legislation that would prevent suspected terrorists from buying firearms. The platform also explicitly defends the types of weapons used in recent shootings, including Newtown, Aurora, San Bernardino and Oregon.
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Comstock Voted 22 Times To Block No Fly, No Buy Legislation. [H Res 539, Vote #646, 12/01/15; H Res 542, Vote #653, 12/02/15; H Res 546, Vote #666, 12/03/15; H Res 556, Vote #682, 12/09/15; HR 2130, Vote #685, 12/09/15; Motion, Vote #688, 12/10/15; H Res 560, Vote #690, 12/11/15; H Res 579, Vote #2, 1/06/16; H Res 580, Vote #4, 1/06/16; H Res 581, Vote #21, 1/07/16; H Res 783, Vote #304, 6/15/16; H J Res 88, Vote #337, 6/22/16; H Res 796, Vote #343, 7/05/16; H Res 793, Vote #345, 7/05/16; H Res 794, Vote #347, 7/05/16; H Res 803, Vote #352, 7/06/16; HR 4361, Vote #375, 7/06/16; H Res 809, Vote #387, 7/07/16; H Res 820, Vote #406, 7/12/16; H Res 89, Vote #408, 7/12/16; HR 4768, Vote #415, 7/12/16; H Res 822, Vote #439, 7/13/16]
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