Koch brothers' and Dick Armey's FreedomWorks forces 12 issues on RNC.

[pampango]

1) Repeal Obamacare; Pursue Patient-Centered Care
2) Stop the Tax Hikes
3) Reverse Obama’s Spending Increases
4) Scrap the Code; Replace It with a Flat Tax
5) Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment
6) Reject Cap and Trade
7) Rein in the EPA
8) Unleash America’s Vast Energy Potential
9) Eliminate the Department of Education
10) Reduce the Bloated Federal Workforce
11) Curtail Excessive Federal Regulation
12) Audit the Fed

http://www.freedomworks.org/press-releases/republican-party-adopts-majority-of-tea-party%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cf

None of these are very surprising. Apparently the RNC adopted 10 of the issues without change and adopted #4 and #9 with some 'softening'.

They evidently avoided foreign policy and social issues in the issues they pushed on the platform committee.

[mojo2012]

1. Money does buy anything

I don't think for a minute, that all the outrageous donations made by the billionaires (and companies) that they didn't expect something in return. They paid for 4 years of promises that would benefit them. This is just a START of what they expect for their money.
They put their money on the candidate that will sign whatever is in front of him because he OWES them now.

[Fawke Em]

2. And the news media reporting on this is... where?

If the average American saw this, the polls wouldn't be so close.