It's not about the issues, part 2

The '08 GOP platform tackles middle America's anxiety about the economy with this:

In a reference to the housing crisis, the document supports ``timely and carefully targeted aid to those hurt by the housing crisis'' without encouraging people to borrow more than they can afford. There is no mention in the draft of the current credit crisis or turmoil in the financial markets.

The document was altered in committee to add language opposing government bailouts of private institutions, presumably including embattled mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ``Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself,'' the text now says.

Support for free trade remains a plank in the party's platform, with the text echoing McCain's stance in calling trade essential to jobs and higher wages as well as national security.

Like McCain, the platform calls for more oil exploration and production in the U.S. ``We simply must draw more American oil from American soil,'' it says. Nuclear energy, which the document calls ``a gift to mankind implanted in matter itself,'' is also promoted in the text.

McCain aides played down any differences between the candidate's stances and the platform. Taylor Griffin, a McCain spokesman, said Republicans ``are united'' behind McCain.

That's about the extent of all I came up with after The Google of "GOP 2008 platform economy."