Unlike the NYT, this guy looks at the voting records befor calling someone a “moderate.”
A gaggle of Republicans– nearly a dozen– scared that electoral doom has them on a list, perhaps a long list, wandered over to the White House today and told the head of their disreputable party, certainly someone who no one would confuse with a moderate, “that conditions [in Iraq] needed to improve markedly by fall or more Republicans would desert him on the war. The White House session demonstrated the grave unease many Republicans are feeling about the war, even as they continue to stand with the president against Democratic efforts to force a withdrawal of forces through a spending measure that has been a flash point for weeks.”
Is standing with the unmoderate Bush and his extremist and failed policies part of being a Republican moderate?
WHAT DO FOLKS LIKE THE NYT MEAN BY A “MODERATE” REPUBLICAN
I think what they have in mind is a party member who can point–or, if it’s beyond his/her mental capacity, have SOMEONE ELSE point on his/her behalf, to someone in the party who is MORE extreme.–Ken