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Over the 50 years that you have catalogued, the center has shifted back and forth. Nixon said

Of course it has. That is what the contest is all about. I did not argue that the center never changes, I argued the left and right fight over it. He who wins the center wins. Both parties have won the center and both parties have lost the center. It is always up for grabs. And both parties have grabbed it.

But your statemnet that Ike was more conservative than Nixon is funnny. At the 1952 Republican Convention Everett Dirkson the Ill. Senator nominated Robert A. Taft for the presidency. In that nomination speech Dirkson accused Ike of being a Republican in name only. IKE was indeed a RINO and Everett in stentorian tones called him one.

Just a year before, in 1951, Harry Truman had offered Ike his support for the Democratic Nomination for President. Both Harry and Roosevelt had believed Ike was a Democrat. I wonder what Ike ever said that gave them that idea? Ike was Harrys first choice for the 1952 Democratic nomination for president. Ike turned him down. That is the reason for the hate looks Harry gave Ike at the inauguration in 1953 and why Harry told the media about Ikes English girl friend.

Ike was about as conservative as Jim Jeffords and Nelson Rockefeller. But the Pubies needed the center and the Demorats had had it since 1932. There was no way Barry Goldwater's hero Robert A Taft could win. So the pubies went for a center pleasing RINO. And the RINO went for the center and got it.

Oh by the way, did you know that WILIAM F. BUCKEY in his August 1980 edtion of national review trashed Reagan for going too far to appeal to the center?

William F. Buckley. Did you ever notice that little men who can't impress you with their thoughts, often try to impress you with big words.

Both the crooked Democrats and the Republican eunuchs are tax-and-spenders now. Where is the center? It is somewhere with the 52% in the red counties who are being screwed by the crooked political bean counters in the blue counties. Which is why this nation is rapidly descending to banana republic status and has some very bad days before it.

Why don't you read what I said, or have someone read it to you, because what I said is Eisenhower would not have understood Nixon's statement that we are all Keynesians now. Who said anything about conservative?

I have no interest in defending things I didn't say. And I'll bet you have an entire library of those smart-assed bold comments, don't you. You can have this one for free: It makes no difference how fast you are going if you are going down the wrong road.