Romney is a failure...and Ryan is not happy

[Stranger in a strange land]

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.

I was really hoping Santorum would get nominated this year and then lose by 15 points in the general, just so we would never have to hear this argument again, but alas, it was not to be.

[Stranger in a strange land]

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Which is why he became the 'most hated president in America?' Come off it. He was a conservative. Liberals hated him with the passion of a thousand suns.

You said that people have to run as a conservative to get elected. George W. Bush went explicitly in the other direction for his 2000 campaign. Then 9/11 happened and he was able to make the war appeal, but look at his accomplishments: NCLB or Medicare Part D.

Liberals hated him in 2000 for a bunch of reasons, but one of them was anger at the conservative Republicans in Congress in the 1990s and that they were getting away with the congenial frontman for their policies.

Speaking of which, I'm pretty much certain that had he somehow managed to get elected, Bob Dole would have governed in a more conservative manner than George W. Bush did.

And let's not forget, Bush and Gore BOTH ran as moderates in 2000. At least in his first term, Bush governed far to the right of what he had run as.