Phony Moderate
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« on: December 21, 2013, 05:29:45 PM » |
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Nowadays, rhetoric seems to play a greater role in determining how moderate or conservative a Republican politician is; look at Christie and Huntsman for instance. Both have/had a solidly right-wing (without being extreme) approach in governing their respective states, but their pragmatic demeanours have placed them into the moderate camp.
Going back to 1968, Nixon was viewed as a fairly moderate Republican despite using language that was in some ways more extreme than the Tea Party.
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