re: #92 Charles

Reading that article, it’s striking how much farther to the right Pawlenty has gone in recent years. On every social and scientific issue, he’s now toeing the religious right line.

This is an excellent demonstration of the religious right’s death grip on the GOP. Even someone who seems to start out as a moderate is forced to get increasingly more extreme, in order to stay in office.

Exactly. A moderate does not have a future in the current GOP.