Amid all the EXCELLENT NEWS!!!FOR MCCAIN! -- the Dems coming together in Denver, his unpaid advisers telling everyone without health insurance to go to the ER, Gustav bearing down on New Orleans -- I haven't seen much mention of the GOP platform being assembled ahead of next week's Minnesota convention.  NPR had a piece on it this morning.  The highlight, for me, was this bit:

Unlike the last GOP platform, which mentioned George W. Bush on nearly every page, this platform mentions McCain only in its preamble — and some of the positions it takes fly in the face of McCain's own record as something of a Republican maverick.

Pennsylvania state Sen. Jane Orie read the party's stance opposing same-sex marriage: "We call for a constitutional amendment to protect marriage as the union of a man and a woman."

McCain has consistently opposed such a constitutional amendment because he thinks it's an issue for states to resolve.

He has also urged action to curb global warming and favors a cap-and-trade system that many in his party oppose. The GOP platform makes no mention of cap and trade, while it rails against what it calls "doomsday climate change scenarios."

David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, considers the platform "very conservative" and says it clearly falls short of what the McCain campaign would have wanted.

"Obviously, they're very interested in not being slapped in the face, and the party's not interested in slapping the candidate in the face," Keene said. "But the party has not taken the position that you would've wanted them to take if you were a campaign operative for John McCain."

It seems McCain has more to worry about from members of his own party than Obama does from Hillary and Bill.  Will the MSM ask him how he's going to reach out to the right wing of the GOP? We're waiting to hear ...