Funny how 10 years ago Jeb Bush would be seen as being on the relative right on the GOP, most moderates would scoff. Where as now he's the moderate, compromise candidate
Nah. I mean, maybe to the right of Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, but come on, he would've been in the center of the GOP.
That's barely even true 20 years ago.
Exactly. There's a difference between saying the GOP has lost a lot of moderate members since the '70s and '80s and saying the GOP was less conservative back then. Conservatives are louder and have more power in today's GOP, but I'd argue that the level of conservatism in the platform, especially rhetoric about business regulation and individual tax burden, has stayed more or less the same for several decades.