[cotton1706]

[DManA]

Duh, why do you think there’s a tea party?

[Little Ray]

By “moderate” I think he means further left - for both Democrats and ‘Pubbies.

[txrefugee]

Obama has taken the Democrats to the Left by 8% points, while the TEA Party has taken Republicans to the Right by only 3%. So the headline should read: “Obama Takes Democrats to the Left.” Another example of Washington Post bias.

[Moonman62]

The dream of the GOPe is to be indistinguishable from the Democrats.

[bill1952]

...Before the tea party, the GOP was actually getting more moderate liberal

[Iron Munro]

You May Be A member Of THE EVIL FAR RIGHT if -

You believe the US Constitution means what it says and only what it says

You are a patriot and love America

You believe in GOD

You believe that homosexual sex, pedophilia, pederasty and beastiality are unnatural acts

You believe that a true marriage can only be between a man and woman - not man and man or woman and woman

You believe the laws of the nation should be enforced as written

You believe in equal treatment for all

You believe it is immoral for the government to extort money from one person to give to another able bodied person

[Lakeshark]

The idea that the Reagan policies were "extreme" is the premise that allows this guy to write this bilge.

The GOP has drifted to the left, not become more conservative, there are zero examples of going farther to the right than Reagan did. Lest we forget, the Reagan presidency brought unprecedented success to America in terms of influence, a strong economy, and a populace that lived the American dream more successfully than ever before. Yep, so "extreme".

On the other hand, beginning with the Clinton machine, the dems have moved further to the left every year, to the point now they're entirely immersed in the politics of totalitarianism. They think they're so right, they really believe they ought to be able to do anything they want with impunity, without checks, without balances and without shame believe their ideas are so good that the ends justify the means.

[depressed in 06]

The title should be Bolshecrats becoming more Stalinist, Republicans becoming less.

[Mike Darancette]

As the below chart from the Pew Research Center shows, Republicans in the late 1990s and early 2000s actually appeared to move away from the far right portion of the political spectrum and toward moderation.

And that got us Barack Hussein Obama.

[TigersEye]

Before the tea party, the GOP was actually getting more moderate

Well, duh!