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Ya might want to take a look at #197. The Party responded and went right after 92 when Bush became a one-termer, the voters responded in 94. Then the Party headed left again 94 thru 96, offered Dole, and the voters again responded. The Party responded with Bush II in 2000, promising, "He's not his daddy", and again the voters responded.

Bush II is headed left, we'll see if the voters respond.

The voters "come back to dinner" when they are responded to, not when they are ignored, is my point.

The only "Germans bombing Pearl Harbor" moment here is being displayed by the folks who think conservatives will always come back no matter what you do to them.

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The Party responded and went right after 92 when Bush became a one-termer, the voters responded in 94. Then the Party headed left again 94 thru 96, offered Dole, and the voters again responded.

You don't remember 95 do you.

The R party ran on the right in 94 while the Clinton slime machine remained strangely quiet. The R party then had their heads handed to them in 95 by the counter punching global, leftist Clinton slime machine.By the time 95 was over, the contract with America was considered dangerous and unfeeling by many "centrist" Americans.

That's history -- how soon we forget.

It was the centrists who helped out in 94 and it was the centrists who were scared off like little sheep in 95. And with the R congress of 95 loosing support, why should the R politicians care about future small government?

GW Bush and his compassionate conservatism is a direct result of the pounding conservative politicians took in 95.