COMMENTARY | May 31, 2012
Up for adoption soon, the platform, with 400 planks, is so extreme that an op ed in the Des Moines Register carried the headline, “A letter to the good people of Iowa: Are you crazy?” Aside from that column, however, a check showed no news coverage by the three largest newspapers in the state.
By Herb Strentz
Like Jack Torrance, the crazed axe wielder played by Jack Nicholson
in The Shining, the Iowa Republican party platform is ‘BAAAAAACK!” And,
like its predecessors over the past decade or so, the draft of the 2012
platform is every bit off its rocker as Jack.
The platform will
be up for worship and adoption at the Iowa Republican state convention
on June 16. “Worship” is a good word, given the domination of the Iowa
GOP by evangelical zealots and the platform’s homage to their takes on
Christian doctrine.
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