No insult intended........is Bush a republican? Just a question. It’s like sometimes I listen to Bush and the ‘08 Republican candidates and they sound ever more like conservative Democrats than the Republicans I grew up with, i.e. Goldwater.
None taken. I do think Bush is a 'Republican', whatever that means on any given day or issue, and therein lies the problem - neither Bush nor Republicans are consistently conservative in their thinking or actions so what the heck are they? RINOs seems to be a popular label. I don't think there is a reliable 'definition' of what a Republican or a Democrat is any more and as you say, the characteristics of both parties have morphed over the years. We might as well have Repubocrats and Demolicans.