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 …
Literally no living conservative thinks Bob Dole was a conservative.
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Conservatives today don’t get to rewrite history. They can cheer that they took the party over and lurched it far to the right to the point that even Barry Goldwater wouldn’t qualify by today’s standards. But they can’t take historical figures & judge them by 2019 standards
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The funny thing is that a lot of it was tactical, not ideological. Outside of food stamps, on domestic programs, Dole was a down the line conservative. But he believed in compromise and governance.
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