Mitt Romney, the anti-Reagan.
“I think Bill Weld comes as close as anyone,” Romney said when asked whom in his party he aligned with.
“I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush,”
“I’m not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses.”
Republicans always lose when they try to be all things to all people. This time the Republicans believed that they could appeal to union members, at least in WA State and that if they supported the unions, the unions would support them. I just laughed at them and gave up because the Republicans seemed to have abandoned their core values. You cannot support public sector unions and a smaller budget at the same time.
“Mitt Romney, the anti-Reagan.”
But Reagan used to be a Democrat and liberal on some issues when he was GOP governor of California.