This time next year, the Idaho GOP may have realized what its delegates meeting in Twin Falls last week collectively prayed for: Republican President Mitt Romney presiding over a GOP-led House and Senate. What then? No longer will the Idaho political establishment deflect attention to Democratic President Barack Obama. Instead, it must answer for what it has done - or tried to do - at home. For starters, it will have to explain the Idaho GOP platform.Delegates departed Twin Falls having made just a few editing tweaks. With the phrase "naturally born" erased, the party maintained its definition of traditional marriage as between a man and a woman. ... Otherwise, the platform is the same Tea Party doctrine the GOP cobbled together two years ago in Idaho Falls. With one difference. As long as Obama sits in the White House, the platform is, at its best, an exercise in the absurd and, at its worst, a crackpot agenda of no importance/Marty Trillhaase, Lewiston Tribune. More here. (AP photo of new Idaho GOP Chairman Barry Peterson)

Question: Does anyone beyond diehard Idaho Republicans and opinion writers care what's in the Idaho GOP platform?