Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

>>>The Republicans as a whole are not "so far to the right of midstream" as you think..<<<

This is where your whole argument falls flat on its face in my opinion. The party as a whole is off the scale to the right for the simple reason that the right fringe dominates the party. Why did Jim Jeffords quit? How often do you see Lincoln Chafee posing with Bush or Cheney, and was the party's wholesale approval of Rick Santorum's gay rantings indicative of a mainstream republican leadership? And lastly, tell me with a straight face that a president who is the official leader of the ultra conservative Christian Coalition is also the leader of a moderate republican party. Bush the elder was a moderate and is starting to look like a liberal next to John Wayne wannabe.