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ShoshoneConservative on November 07 at 12:42 a.m.
Generally, the GOP does better at the polls when it runs to the right. Look at Reagan’s performance compared to Ford’s, and Newt Gingrich compared to Bob Michel. For most of the 20th Century, moderates have more or less just been place-holders in seats that would otherwise be held by Democrats, while conservatives have led the party (even the Roosevelt/Borah “Progessives” were still very much social conservatives) - the moderates’ time in the sun was during the 1970’s, and that was more of an exception, rather than the rule.
Unless, of course, those who think the GOP has moved to the right yearn for the days of such “moderate” stalwarts as Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr., Herbert Hoover, Robert Taft, Joseph McCarthy, Herman Welker, Barry Goldwater (in his earlier career), and Richard Nixon during his time as a representative (better known as the chair of HUAC).
Arch_Druid on November 07 at 9:38 a.m.
Appeals to the radical fringe elements you mean?