[mikeus_maximus]

So how did the GOP get here? It all started with Ronald Reagan allowing GWB I on the ticket in 1980 to appease the Beltway blue bloods. The GOP hasn't suddenly "gone moderate" in the last couple years- it's degenerated back into what it always was. RR was a momentary conservative abheration. I cringed as I pulled the lever for GWB in 1988, knowing what was coming next.

And it has. But worse than I expected. GWB II is the posted child of the party machine. Oh, I'm sure we'll get more conservative rhetoric from the GOP to try to drum up the base in 2008. But the candidate will be even more leftwing than GWB.

[LiveFree99]

But the candidate will be even more leftwing than GWB.

Have you seen the support on some threads for Guiliani in 2008? Some Freepers believe that they have to go with a liberal because he's the only one who can beat Shrillary.

Right now it's not looking too good for the 2008 Presidential election.