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Old 05-29-2012, 07:04 PM   #13
Caunnysup

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The thing is the Republicans always do nominate a centrist *after* they've sufficiently smashed him into giving up the things that would make him appealing to the average voter. The last guy they nominated who was right-wing, relative to their fellow Republicans, was Reagan. And by modern standards he was a moderate!
I have to disagree with that statement. Unless, by modern, you mean post-2008; where Republicans got psychotic because Obama is in office.

First, the realignment of the Democrat and Republican parties. Where the Democrats were once conservative, and the Republicans were once liberal. Woodrow Wilson was the last conservative Democrat, and Eisenhower was the last liberal Republican.

Nixon was the first conservative Republican, however, he still bore some relevance to the Republicans who preceded him; as did Ford. The transition to conservatism in the GOP was 100% complete when Reagan took office. Even David Duke converted from Democrat to Republican that same year (1981).

The biggest kicker of them all? Reaganomics - or "trick-down economics." You can't get possibly get more conservative than that. Well maybe, just MAYBE, 9-9-9 MIGHT have been worse; but still.

Some of the results of Reaganomics is the trend away from defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans in the private sector; CEO's making 500 times that of their average employee, when they only made 35 times in the 1970's; and far lower pay (in terms of purchasing power) for blue collar jobs.
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