Well, what were they supposed to do? Send Bush on bus tours though college campuses? I this 'book' will be about as full of logic as a 'football bat'.
How does she explain Bush boosting his percentage among blacks, latinos, and jews.
Funny there was nothing wrong with sKerry appealing to the extremist in HIS base (socialist, communist, antiamerican folk)..
I'd ask dimWhitman who was the last moderate GOPer to get elected President. Nixon's social and fiscal policies were be called moderate by today's standards but he was thought of as a hard line anti-commie. Not totally true because detente was never designed to defeat the USSR but that was the perception of him.
She's just mad because she can't be President and/or she's just trying to make a buck the only way she knows how.