I don't know one candidate that runs on that platform especially at the Presidential level. It was an appeasement to special interest groups so they could go away happy and then gets put back in a drawer for four more years. The more I think about it the less happy I am with Rove and his reaching out to the wrong group for votes -- he pandered.
I agree, but the way the first term election numbers broke down, he was not left with much of a choice.
This has also been the driver behind a lot of seemingly unexplainable moves that have been made by the admin on occasion but it is much more visible in the congress, or was.....
I think the political guru's call it "base politics". It is a very dangerous game that most often fails.
Here's one for your new ping list, Jim. In this one she's denouncing the socially conservative Republican Party Platform and saying she's unhappy with Karl Rove for "pandering" to the icky social conservatives for votes. It is too bad that voters with values and a socially conservative platform are such burdens to those who promote liberals in the party.