A number of posters in this thread have been punked. They have so filtered objective reality through their political biases that they could not notice an obvious satire.
The article is on to something, however. Since Watergate, every Republican candidate running on a conservative platform [Reagan, Bush I 1998, and Bush II 2000] has won, and, every Republican candidate running as a moderate, or running on a moderate record has lost, with the sole exception of Bush II in 2004 whom had the good fortune of Osama Bin Laden endorsing his opponent just before the election. If Romney pursues a moderate strategy, he will suffer the fate as every other moderate. If that is the case, some folks in the Republican party had better step forward and speak up for conservatism.
Bush didn't win in 2000, and he was looking like a one-termer until he failed to prevent 9/11, and then milked it politically for all he could get out of it.
