Right-wing political operative and pseudo-historian David Barton played a key role in drafting the Republican platform ahead of the GOP convention earlier this month and has been bragging that the platform committee ended up producing “the most conservative platform in modern history.”
Over the weekend, Barton spoke at Cottonwood Creek Church in Allen, Texas, where he stated that his main goal in helping to draft GOP platforms is to “make sure that I get as many biblical principles in as possible” and boasted that he has been historically successful at doing so.
The current platform is “the most biblically friendly platform we’ve had in my lifetime,” Barton stated, and that is because he has been able to convince the platform committee to adopt just about every amendment that he has ever recommended.
“They tell me that I have set the record for platform writing,” Barton crowed. “Four years ago when we wrote it, I made 140 amendments to the platform — staff writes it and then we edit it — and all but one of those amendments were accepted. This year there was something like 70-something amendments and every one of them was accepted, which tells me that we have a somewhat friendly audience because I kept inserting stuff about the Constitution, the Declaration, and God and the Bible and they keep voting it up.”
