Moderates and The Republican Party and Lessons to Be Learned
There’s a very interesting debate going on now in the Republican party concerning the supposed purge of moderates out of the Republican party.
I’d like to add in my two cents that the Republican Party has been nominated abashed moderates for their last four nominees for President.
The only one to have any electoral success of their own, aside from riding Ronald Reagans coat tails, wound up driving the Republican Party to it’s lowest ebb since Watergate.
Rather than doing any good it’s been a recipe for disaster. It hasn’t even done that much good with independents because the dinosaur media still labels a John McCain (a true moderate) a right winger. The true extremist, Barack Obama, was able to defeat a true moderate. That’s working out well for the country right now.
George W Bush was conservative in some things, but spent money like a Democrat. What’d that do except for give the Democrats a reason to bash him on his spending like mad themselves? Dole, Bush1 and McCain all made efforts to work with the Democrats and none of them were the better for it.
Don’t run on being conservative the left is working hard to make the label as toxic as “liberal” has become. Run on the issues and we’ll be fine. The country is a conservative country and will support conservative ideas but if we let them label us they have a chance of winning.


