Do you think Dubya would be considered too liberal by today's GOP?

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George W. Bushism is still very much alive and thriving in the GOP. Maybe the man himself is toxic because we know how much of a failure he is today, but every modern GOPer follows his model, including Trump.

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And Bush would be perfectly acceptable to voters. Ideology does not matter in today's GOP, it's all about perception.

Jeb and George W. had identical policy positions (in fact, it could be argued, Jeb was more conservative), but George W. won by being a kickass Texan, while Jeb got defined as a bumbling, wimpy idiot (I'm not sure he's an idiot, but boy was he bumbling and wimpy).