Rick Moran, writing at Pajamas Media, this morning asks an interesting question:
If Reagan Tolerated GOP Moderates, Why Can’t Today’s Conservatives?
Well, Rick, given the treatment Reagan and his legacy are now getting at the hands of the supposed moderates, I would think the answer to be self-evident.
Now, the Bush family, as I’ve been saying for years, is not conservative, but centrist, politically speaking. So, watch what comes out of his mouth the other day.. all in the name of the moderates:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Saturday that it’s time for the Republican Party to give up its “nostalgia” for the heyday of the Reagan era and look forward, even if it means stealing the winning strategy deployed by Democrats in the 2008 election.
So, according to Bush, we should become Democrats if we want to win. Funny thing; we just came off a loss, wherein the head of the ticket, John McCain was making the same noises.
See, the problem you’re missing, Rick, is that the moderates won’t tolerate Reagan.
But you know there’s an interesting meme that’s started coming up these last several days, and it’s actually alluded to by Bush, in the quote above. The winning strategy of the Democrats. What was that strategy? What did the Democrats do to win?
They went to their base, that’s what. Every move the Republicans made was a reason for a press conference highlighted by leftists screaming and gnashing their teeth over whatever. For years, they cast Bush as the bad guy, the Republicans as the anti-American, and relentlessly pushed their core leftist values. They weren’t accepting their moderates… they pushed them out. Consider Joe Lieberman, as a prime example.
So, not only is the issue that the moderates aren’t tolerating the conservatives, but the moderates have demonstrably pushed us into a losing strategy.
No, Rick, Sorry. Being “Democrat Lite” isn’t the answer. And the proof of that is sitting in the White House just now.
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