[okie01]

"Moderate meaning you take half the (R) platform and half the (D) platform and run with it. Is this good or bad for conservatism in the long run?"

However one might wish to characterize it -- "half a loaf is better than none", e.g. -- it represents a shift to the right. And less power for the left.

And those are both good things.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

All this happened with the political establishment -- including the Bush White House -- as an uneasy bystander.
The instruments of direct citizen participation that were devised early in the 20th century by such progressives as California's Hiram Johnson always have been hated by the professional politicians. The passage of Proposition 13 property tax reduction in the state in 1978 and the recall of Gray Davis worked just as Johnson envisioned.

The benefits that may be bestowed on the Republican Party constitute a major side effect.

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