http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/theruckus/archive/2008/08/21/crooks-and-liars-when-party-platforms-cease-to-matter.aspxIt became something of a running joke in 1996, when Bob Dole publicly conceded, many times, that he hadn’t even read the Republican Party’s platform. ”I have due respect for the platform,” Dole said at one point after his convention. ”I read a lot ofenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 2.18)