July 7, 2003

The Middle Road to Extremism

by P.M. Carpenter

A leading conservative strategist recently offered this explanation as to why, going into a reelection campaign, Bush II has right wingers in the bag and Bush I did not: "Every group that this president [keeps] faith with, the previous president double-crossed."

Most would concede the assessment’s overall fairness. Yet, while doing no injury to the strategist's originality, there is a more telling way to phrase it: "Every group that the previous president kept faith with, this president double-crosses."

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