I would imagine that given the "moderate" face that the GOP is trying to put on during its convention, any attention to the fact that the party's moderates were actually cut out and excluded from the Platform Committee would be pretty embarassing. And that is PRECISELY what I think that this list would reveal.

A prominant politician once said that nobody actually reads or cares about the party platforms. Perhaps that is true with the general voting public.

But given how touchy moderate-to-independent members of the GOP feel about the way they have been treated in this administration -- i.e., getting derided as "squishes," getting strong-armed and co-opted -- it would really rub salt in their wounds if it was revealed that the moderates had been totally excluded from the process of writing the platform, as opposed to being consulted and then ignored (as has been done in the past). This would likely be a bigger story and a political problem than the substance of the platform itself.

-- Bokonon