There is little hope of holding politicians, plain office functionaries, to philosophical purity when most can't even be held to their own party platform.
The Democrats have little concern that their candidate will bald-faced lie while running. They take for granted they will get most of what they want later. The galling issue is that many Republican office seekers once elected then go on to try to please and pander to the media instead of their own voters on the Republican side.
Bush ran on a number of hot-button issues, one of which was high federal involvement in secondary education. The proof he was no conservative was that he actaully advanced such legislation once elected. If he was a democrat endorsing something more conservative during a campaign, he would have just ignored it or paid small lip service to it later.
We are going to have to decide who we want in the general election. That is what we are voting for in the primary process by the time it is down to three.
I hear ya. I agree when it comes to Bush, and it is coming down to who we can stomach to support. We’re going to bite the bullet soon.