1. Texas
Back in 1983, when there was a general election in the UK, the Labour Party wrote a classic manifesto for the election, promising all manner of backward-looking policies if it won the election. After the Conservative Party won the election in a landslide, the Labour Party manifesto became known as "the longest electoral suicide note in history".
Right now here in Texas, the GOP has whistled up an even more batshit crazy pile of poo, billed as its Party Platform.
There is an analysis of the document here, and based on that analysis, this is at least as batshit crazy as anything I have read in the past 30 years from a political party. It appears to have been written by a collection of people who inhabit a strange parallel universe that I have never been to (and would never want to visit, based on what I have read so far.)
This platform is regressive, censorious, out of touch with reality, and completely in conflict with any sustainable concept of limited government. In short, it is what a work colleague of mine called a "pile of cack". It might make good fertilizer, but somehow I doubt that.
If the GOP in Texas ever wants me to even consider voting for them, they need to be dynamiting crap like this into earth orbit, and actually coming up with something that bears a passing resemblance to 2012 and beyond.

2. Oklahoma
Of course, I should have realized...there is an old joke in these parts that the only reason that Oklahoma exists is so that people will stop feeling sorry for Texas. Based on this OK state GOP Platform from 2011, they might have a point...

I intend to translate both of these platforms into GrahamSpeak in the near future. Stay tuned...