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 …
There's a reason Newt called Dole the tax collector for the welfare state. Any account of the Reagan years shows the constant rearguard fights between Dole and the White House.
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Right, but the motive was pure conservatism: balancing the budget. Dole (and Howard Baker) understood that there was no practical way to cut spending & unlike Reagan he didn’t subscribe to nonsense economics that were proven to be pure sophistry. I mean, after Dave Stockman came
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Out and admitted it, anyone who cared about the deficit had to follow Dole’s path.
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Yes, Newt’s an a-hole is the reason
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