"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."
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seabass...
You missed the whole point of my post -- you are looking at the Republican party through the eyes of a left wing liberal, not a middle of the road average American citizen. Apparently you see Jim Jeffords as a conservative, or at least as a moderate, but he is not - he is a liberal. Bush is not the leader of the Christian Coalition (contrary to what liberals want to believe), he is the leader of the Republican party and the President of the United States. As such, he is not an ultra right wing fanatic, as you liberals see him, but instead he is a relatively conservative Republican - and the public is very happy with him and his presidency at the moment, thank you very much.
His dad was a moderately liberal Republican, and his lack of conservative leadership is probably what cost him re-election, with a number of conservatives going over to Ross Perot, a move most of them gravely regretted later after clinton was president.
You need to try to be more objective -- the view from the far left is kinda distorted.
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