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.
