[EricT.]

They may be right, but for the wrong reason. The GOP-e tried to prevent Reagan from running in 1980, and they have moved leftward since. If the GOP-e had their way, GHWB would have been the candidate.

That's what I was just thinking.

Too many people want to paint the GOP as a conservative party with an unfortunate problem of a progressive elite that have no principals and lean leftward. With few exceptions, the entire party apparatus is and always has been without principals and full of big-government progressives. The only exception was the election of Ronald Reagan. But that was only 8 years out of 159.

Some of you Republicans may disagree, but you can't argue with presidential primary election results.

[princeofdarkness]

“The only exception was the election of Ronald Reagan. But that was only 8 years out of 159.”

I would count Coolidge too, except that he wasn’t the choice for President by the party apparatus in 1920. He stayed on to run in 1924 because the GOP saw he was popular with the people and did not to mess up a sure thing. Otherwise, he was of no use to them.

Quite frankly, Coolidge was more conservative than Reagan (and I loved Reagan).