Which is more bizarre: The Iowa GOP platform or the failure of the press to report it?

ASK THIS | July 09, 2010

The platform, claiming to promote moderation, would allow concealed guns in schools, end minimum wage and abortion laws, teach creationism, and impeach ‘activist judges.’ Anybody paying attention? The Iowa press sure doesn't seem to be.

By Herb Strentz
herb.strentz@yahoo.com

The Iowa caucuses are 18 months away, but part of the script for what Iowa Republican activists want is already written.

That script is the 12,000-word, 367-plank platform of the state Republican party, adopted at its June convention and faithful to previous platform themes of “family values,” religious beliefs and downsizing, if not eliminating, the federal government.