Reply #4: they backed themselves into a corner with religious right [View All]

[yurbud]

Bush convinced them he was one of them, so if he backs away, it will be worse than if he had started with the disdain for them his dad has.

GOP moderates understand that the religious right and the similar neocon witch-hunting impulse are becoming repugnant to moderate and swing voters, so moderate pols are risking the far right to keep the votes of the moderately sane.


Also, if Bush started to placate the moderates, he would have to start playing by the normal rules of governing rather than incremental authoritarianism. Any return to something like the rule of law applying to the White House would result in everyone but the cook and janitor going to prison.