George W. Bush lied about being a conservative.
He won because he wasn’t Gore.
“George W. Bush lied about being a conservative.”
So have 95% of the Republicans politicians running for office in the last 60 years. In the 1960’s the party was controlled by wealthy, northern, elite school educated liberals. Names such as Nelson Rockefeller, Prescott Bush, George Romney, John Lindsay, and Charles Percy come to mind. Even the scrappy Richard Nixon, who did not have an elitist family background and ran for office as a conservative, governed as a northern liberal Republican and was responsible for expanding federal government power as president.
In reality the GOP is still the country club elite liberal party. It favors big government solutions to problems. It looks down on the crude conservatives it appeals to for votes on Election Day. It has no core political philosophy and feels no obligation to protect individual liberty for the lower classes.