re: #106 Rightwingconspirator

True, but that’s just one small facet of a Presidency. .

re: #87 engineer dog

Well why did he have to defend them so much? Because on at least two key issues, he was far from conservative. Fiscal and immigration policy. Was he the most conservative of the primary challengers he beat? Hardly…

Probably the most viable electorally conservative of those he ran against. I’ll easily give you that Alan Keyes and Pat Buchanan were more conservative than G.W Bush but no way in hell was the Republican Party going to nominate those two nutters for president.