Posted on 01/02/2005 5:25:51 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JAN 02, 2005 18:00:00 ET XXXXX
BUSH BASH BOOK BURSTS IN TIME FOR INAUGURAL
Christine Todd Whitman, the former New Jersey governor who was President Bush's first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has written a book that touts the importance of moderates to the future of the Republican Party and flays Bush and his team for ignoring the country's middle.
Whitman charges on Page 3 that Bush's three-percentage-point margin in the popular vote is the lowest of any incumbent president ever to win reelection, the WASHINGTON POST reports in coming editions, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.
IT'S MY PARTY TOO: THE BATTLE FOR THE HEART OF THE GOP AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA streets during inauguration week, insuring heavy media coverage
"The numbers show that while the president certainly did energize his political base, the red state/blue state map changed barely at all, suggesting that he had missed an opportunity to significantly broaden his support in the most populous areas of the country," Whitman writes. "The Karl Rove strategy to focus so rigorously on the narrow conservative base won the day, but we must ask at what price to governing and at what risk to the future of the party."
Whitman details her many scars and frustrations in dealing with what she calls the "antiregulatory lobbyists and extreme antigovernment ideologues" that she suggests hold too much sway over the Republican party.
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>> Her point was that Bush won his re-election with the narrowest margin in history.
That is a deceitful 'point' used frequently by leftists to try to trick the public into believing that the President doesn't have a mandate. Of course, the lefties always considered Clinton to have a mandate, even though he got less than 50% of the votes in both elections, and most likely would have lost the first time if not for the loudmouth Perot.
It's all a matter of perspective. If you're a moderate, you're going to think everyone should be moderate. In my perspective, I think there is a greater problem with the Democrats being too off center. Okay, I've got to hand it to them that can put up a moderate front when they need to --but, come on, they gave Michael Moore a seat of honor at the DNC! Moore is like the prophet of the most radical socialist groups in America.
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Actually, the Robert Taft to whom I've referred, was the son of President William Howard Taft.
The current governor of Ohio, Robert (Bob) Taft, is the great granson of President William Howard Taft.
What would you include in your list? Spending hundreds of billions of dollars in "welfare" for another nation? Legalizing his Mexican cousins? Adding a precription benefit to medicare? Wimping out on social security and tax reform? I hear a lot of talk that I dont ever expect to materialize under Bush. He is too much of a liberal to push a conservative agenda.
Clinton got 43.0% in 1992 and 49.2% in 1996. Perot ran both times.
All presidential election stats can be found at PresidentElect.org
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