The Washington Post Thinks George W. Bush Is A New Democrat
"But symbolic reforms are easy to imitate. George W. Bush's compassionate conservatism is intent on matching Gore gesture for gesture, from drugs to long-term care. The New Democrat response--play push-off politics while adopting the "second generation of New Democrat ideas."
George W. Bush: Fugitive Liberal - May 19, 2000
"So marked was he that even the liberal Washington Post branded Bush "The New Democrat," someone every bit as liberal as an Al Gore or a Bill Clinton."