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We have gone done the road of political pragmatism before. The so-called moderates have created vthe political climtae in which liberalism succeeds and conservatives have a hard to getting elected.
How is the Senate, Congress and the White House currently oriented?
We ran the politically expedient moderate presidential candidate and he got spanked and failed to generate hardly any enthusiasm in the conservative voter base.
Losing them has serious consequences. IMO, the GOP has gone off course, but Keyes is not the guy to correct that course. The fact that he cannot give an honest reading of Brown's positions means he is ill-suited to function effectively in the political arena. Someone like Palin, who can appeal to a large swath of people, who has won elections, and who does not feel compelled to lie about the positions of others, is much better suited. But Keyes turns around and attacks her conservative purity as well.