The Republican party seems to have lost sight of the fact that every time true Conservatism is presented, it is embraced. It was when Reagan ran and again in 94. As it stands, all of the G.O.P. front runners are seeing who can sprint to the middle the fastest.
The Republican party seems to have lost sight of the fact that every time true Conservatism is presented, it is embraced.Part of this, I'm afraid, is George Bush's fault. Once he introduced the phrase "compassionate conservatism" he introduced a great deal of confusion into the minds of borderline conservatives, encouraging people to think that there was something wrong with conservatism that needed to be fixed with a proper application of "compassion", aka socialism.