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Originally Posted by Gort
Americans have never voted for a hard core conservative. Bush certainly wasn't one and Reagan for all his talk was a pragmatist that talked like a hard core conservative.
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But the republicans have nominated them before and there are a couple in the nrunning now that have no chance of winning, like Newt "divorce my wife on her death bed so I can marry my sweet thang mistress" Gingrich and talk of Fred Thompson.
The point is that the right-wing christian conservative wing of the Republican Party has been muted by the pragmatism that America has moved to the Left.