[Spirited]

"I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that Bush is going soft.

He's racking up a clear record as a "moderate," not a "compassionate conservative," to use his own weasel words. Goldwater wouldn't be happy with that "compassionate" prefix, because it suggests conservatives aren't--something the liberals love to say. Goldwater's book, _The Conscience of a Conservative_ addresses that very point, except in Goldwater's day they called themselves "progressive conservatives." LOL!

Bush is also going to keep the assault weapons ban, lots of bad news this week. Ah well, like father, like son. All in the family: the Order of the Skull and Bones family.

Shocked! Who would have thunk!"

No sense in composing something when there is already a post which says what one would have said. So reprint.....

[ModernDayCato]

Agree (even with the sarcasm), except that I would say W leans liberal, not moderate.