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	When did the GOP become too conservative?

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5-3-2009 10:49 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c050fd45-7833-4cfb-9e9d-ba77188fb31e/DD6081C0-804E-4A85-80AC-8892ECB5824E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/05/03/when-did-the-gop-become-too-conservative/" href="http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/05/03/when-did-the-gop-become-too-conservative/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.redstate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/05/03/when-did-the-gop-become-too-conservative/"><P><A href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22026.html" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" linkindex="30">Arlen Specter</A> told David Gregory on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday Morning that the GOP has become too conservative:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/05/03/when-did-the-gop-become-too-conservative/"><P><A href="http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/meghan_mccain_the_gop_needs_to_become_more_moderate" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" linkindex="31">Meghan Mccain</A> says the GOP  needs to become more moderate:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/05/03/when-did-the-gop-become-too-conservative/"><P>We hear similar statements from Kathleen Parker, David Brooks, Peggy Noonan and David Frum. I must have missed something here. In what way exactly has the Republican Party moved to the <EM>right</EM> since Ronald Reagan’s presidency?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/05/03/when-did-the-gop-become-too-conservative/">Did his successor, George H. W. Bush move the party rightward? The man who said, “Read my lips, no new taxes,” simply raised the old ones.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/05/03/when-did-the-gop-become-too-conservative/">Perhaps it was during the presidency of the elder Bush’s son</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/05/03/when-did-the-gop-become-too-conservative/">if you ignore such initiatives as the No Child Left Behind Act (on which GWB partnered with that raging right-winger Ted Kennedy)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/05/03/when-did-the-gop-become-too-conservative/">If not the White House, it must be in the Congress</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/05/03/when-did-the-gop-become-too-conservative/">does anyone really believe the House has gone to the right since Newt Gingrich</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/05/03/when-did-the-gop-become-too-conservative/"><P>Someone please explain to me how the Republican Party came to be too conservative. I want names, dates and places.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DD6081C0-804E-4A85-80AC-8892ECB5824E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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