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David Barton Went 70 for 71 in Shaping the GOP Platform

It is already(link is external) well-known(link is external) that Religious Right activists(link is external) played a central role in drafting and shaping the official Republican Party Platform to reflect their political agenda. 

The extent to which just how thoroughly the Religious Right's agenda dominates the 2012 GOP platform was helpfully exposed last night when David Barton appeared on GBTV(link is external) to brag that the platform is "the most conservative in my lifetime," revealing(link is external) that he personally "made 71 motions to add to this platform and 70 of them got passed":