This simply is historically false. It totally distorts what moderate has meant. As a former moderate Republican congressman told me in response to this claim, “John McCain was no more a moderate than I am a socialist.”https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1108917289737424898 …
If by maverick you mean he was a moderate on a bunch of issues and conservative on some others, yes. He was a hardliner on national defense. He was for free trade, open immigration, nuclear power, lots of regulation, cutting pork but not big spending programs, skeptic of tax cuts
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Right, but he was a skeptic of tax cuts because he liked balancing the budget. He was a Dole/HW Bush conservative in that regard. But the way I define it is: he was conservative on most issues. And departed from orthodoxy on climate change, immigration, campaign finance & a few
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Literally no living conservative thinks Bob Dole was a conservative.
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