GOP dance: Step to the right, then the center

[Rebellious Republican]

I happened across this article while searching www.whoseflorida.com for some other stuff, its a very interesting read.

Barry Goldwater accepted the Republican nomination for president in 1964 with the line that passed from his lips straight into history: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."

Do you remember Goldwater's next sentence? "And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

Goldwater got buried in a landslide, but his conservatism would find its true champion in Ronald Reagan. Politics has been edging rightward ever since.

Moderation has gone out of fashion in Florida, at least in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. The candidates are engaged in an elaborate dance to get to the right of each other. Nobody wants to be stuck in the middle, where a scarlet letter "M" awaits a doomed moderate.
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/19/Columns/GOP_dance__Step_to_th.shtml

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. I hope they keep running more and more to the right

Then it will be "fashionable" for the winning candidates to be running to the left, simply because contrary to the Cuban voting block, the vast, cast majority of American people are not fascists and would not vote for one if they knew that's what they were.

BrainButtons.com - Fair & Balanced buttons, such as, "Anybody But Bush" and "Drop Bush Not Bombs"

[Rebellious Republican]

2. Unfortunately repubs are not known for their fashion sense, but one

can always hope. I wish people could see through their rhetoric.

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