[John R. (Bob) Locke]

Do you think any sane or rational Republican politician would consider that the proper response to a Democrat winning an election would be that Republicans need to move further to the right?

I only know what I have seen, and I saw that very thing come to pass in spades in 1992-94. Bush the First lost because he decided to go left of center. When Newt and Co. swung things back to the right after seeing what happened in '92, they won decisively.

Am I recollecting those events differently from you?

[Steel Wolf]

Any chance for a reply to #240? I think I'm the only one who's gonna take you up on #208, and I'm curious as to your response.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

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[Qwinn]

I don't think you could find even 10% of Republicans who could tell you three points that constituted the CWA. Certainly no Democrat could do so. Anything coherent about the CWA was completely buried by Gingrich's lack of diplomatic skills and the leftist media blizzard of Clinton's "Contract On America" dismissal. I think Republicans surged in 1994 for different reasons, and the rejection of GHWB was mostly personal - voters don't like being blatantly LIED to, and the "read my lips" pledge was absolutely, uncontrovertably, inarguably a blatant lie. Bush has actually kept practically every campaign promise that he made. And frankly, even though I do consider GWB to be fiscally almost liberal, I think GHWB was significantly less fiscally conservative than his son - but I still would've preferred him 10,000x over to Clinton.

GHWB didn't just lie and raise taxes. He denounced and permanently trashed conservative fiscal policy as "Voodoo Economics". He didn't just screw fiscal conservatives, he demonized them. IMO, he deserved what he got a lot more than what you're trying to do to GWB.

Qwinn