Platform Could Be Messaging Minefield For GOP

The document, which party officials craft every four years at their convention, is usually a minor sideshow compared to the big speeches.

“Any of you ever read the party platform?” House Speaker John Boehner joked to reporters on Monday in Tampa when asked about certain provisions.

But this year’s platform, versions of which have leaked to the press, features a plethora of politically perilous planks touching on social issues that the Romney campaign hopes to downplay in favor of the economy.

A new Pew poll released Monday shows that over half of voters are interested in learning about the GOP platform during the convention, a higher percentage than those who expressed interest in the week’s main event: Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech.

History has taught us that the GOP loves to use the economy to distract us from their draconian social agenda.