[Numbers Guy]

Anytime someone tied to conservatism moves to the left they've "grown". When Bob Dole embraced tax increases in the 1980's he got a lot of good publicity and was said to have "grown".

What's interesting is that Patti Davis when from being a far-left anti-nuclear demonstrator/nude poser to more or less apolitical, yet there are no columns about how wonderfully she's grown. That's because she didn't move to the left.

[GraceCoolidge]

Since his father's death last month, however, he has emerged as a mature, thoughtful and well-spoken middle-aged man...who could hardly wait until his father was in the ground to pimp himself and his "name" to the forces his father spent his political life fighting against. And during those "years of growth," when did he do all this biomedical research and foreign policy study? I missed it.