A seat at Romney's table

The Boston Globe ^ | May 8, 2007 | Dan Gilgoff

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"The two most electorally successful Republican presidential candidates of the last 30 years -- Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush -- took a different path, embracing the movement even though they were outsiders to it."

I don't know that an ideologically conservative man like Reagan (perhaps the only ideologial conservative to be elected to the whitehouse), could be considered to be outside the conservative movement, though he was not part of the Christian right, nor was he a country club or main stream Republican.

The quoted paragraph is definately true of George Bush, however, who was a mainstream Republican.

But the main point is interesting and most likely true. It is the Republican presidential candidates at either end of the spectrum who do poorly, and those who embrace conservatives and the Christian right who do well.

Mitt Romeny well understands it. : ) Go Mitt!!!