“This allowed them to brush off the principles he ran on even after he buried them twice.”
I submit that they were confident that once RWR’s 8 years were up there would be nobody to follow up and continue his ideas. They knew that the likely successor, GHWB was a pantywaist who could be rolled, and they were right. And until Trump took the field we’ve had virtually nobody.
At the moment we are looking, please God, at a potential 16 year dynasty of Trump/Cruz.
Am I being too optimistic here?
Right now I’d take nearly anyone from outside the Washington political establishment. Those bastards all dine at the same slop trough.