Look at the chart. Democrats getting progressively liberal while republicans for a while go along with with liberal tide.
That’s how we ended up with the likes of Lisa Murkowski, Lamar Alexander, Lindsey Graham, Bob Corker, Arlen Specter, Mel Martinez, etc.
It stands to reason that the more one side wants to plunder a group of folks through the gov’t,
the more opposed the other side is going to get to that plundering.
Before Obama, so were the Democrats.
They’re not becoming more moderate. They’re becoming more extremely Liberal. You can not tell me taking on massive amount of debt and massive spending is considered a “moderate” position. And anyone who want to balance the budget is an extremist position
“Before the tea party, the GOP was actually getting more moderate”
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So...what is good about that?...NOTHING
1. The rise of conservative talk radio
2. The tsunami of online conservative news sources
3. Fox News
4. Realization that the GOP was determined to grow government at as fast a pace as RATS.
Meaningless. I’d like to see a multiple choice poll to define what liberal and conservative actually mean.
There's really no way to qualify this his point unless he defines 'liberal'. Once that is honestly done readers will conclude that the GOP's alleged U-turn would be a very good thing.
See my tag line and do your own homework on the Pubbies.
They’ve been on the same team for the past 100 years or so playing the ends (rich and poor) against the middle class.
Collectivism only benefits the rich and the poor until middle class runs out of money.
That's why there is a Tea Party. We don't want 'moderate' statists.
I love the spin in these stories. How is it not radical and extreme to run trillion dollar deficits? How is it not radical and extreme to enact new budget busting entitlements that are going to bankrupt us? And conversely, how is it extreme to say we have to live within our means and cut spending to match revenue just like any other family does?
Translation: before the Tea Party shored it up, the wall of sanity was starting to crumble.
yep, both parties were moving left before
When the media defines “moderate”, what they mean is “more Leftist like me”.
That's why the TEA party was necessary.
Good thing the TEA Party woke up the sleeping Republicans on their way to the Worker’s Paradise”
Well heck yeah. Why do you think the Tea Party came to exist?
Well there's a Duh! comment if I ever read one.
Before the American revolution, England's power in the colonies was actually increasing.
Before the girl went on a diet, she had actually been gaining weight.
I find the entire notion of “moderate” to be wholly despicable.