Shuster's Notebook Is the GOP's 2012 platform its most dangerous yet? Share If you've been raped and are trying to terminate your resulting unwanted pregnancy, you aren't going to find any support or sympathy in the Republican Party platform of 2012. Likewise, if you are a woman and want to serve our nation in the military, or if you want to visit your same-sex partner in the hospital, or if you feel our government shouldn't build an 800-mile-long border fence that independent experts say would "waste money," the GOP 2012 platform is not pleasing.