Where did you come up with that? W. ran as Mr. "Compassionate Conservative" "Drug Benefit for Seniors" back in 2000! We had many heated debated back then, and the "Go Pat Go!" Liberty Post crowd was squealin just as loudly back then.
We supported him in spite of this because we wanted to clean the Clinton filthy out of our government and because his opponent was a deranged extremist.
We will vote for W. again for the very same reason. The Rats could have nominated Lieberman and W. would probably have been toast. But they didn't.
Fair enough. But I for one clearly beleived that he was a man who beleived in the general Reagan principles. I did not expect these massive sellouts on CFR, immigration, education, NEA, etc.
Once again, I am not opposed to the man, and I will vote for him. But I do not believe that we are doing the country any favors by denying that there is a problem.