Posted on 08/13/2007 11:06:54 AM PDT by traviskicks
In the debates, he tried to sound like a conservative.
I maintain that he partially ran as a small government conservative but, as you point out, there was plenty of evidence to the contrary. I was in college at the time and was way too busy to keep up with everything. My only exposure was Fox News and Rush. Both were acting as his cheerleaders. I also watched the debates. In every instance, he was presented as a small government guy.
Only in comparison to Al Gore. If you look at the whole election, primary and general, it is clear that he employed the same “triangulation” strategy that Bill Clinton used. (Trying to present himself as the rational moderate alternative to two radical extremes) The limited government wing of the GOP that came to power in 1994 was played off as one extreme and Gore as another.
I don’t really think he tried very hard to sale anything except Amnesty and the War. The dems and rinos would cry and he’d cave. He’d campaign for people like Spector who was instrumental in turning my party hard to the left.
“And that, liberal boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works.”
See, now why couldn’t the president explain it that way? He always speaks in sound bites.
You are correct about that arse specter.
LLS
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