Originally Posted by
1bad65
And as to BD acting as if conservatives are some sort of poison pill, look at history.
Reagan won TWO landslide elections running as a conservative. Clinton had to run as a moderate to win, heck he even executed a retarded guy to try and appear to be a law and order type and appeal to pro-death penalty voters. George W Bush ran as a 'compassionate conservative' and won twice. McCain ran as a moderate and lost pretty badly. Heck, Obama is a friggin socialist, and yet he had to run as a 'progressive' or 'moderate'. The last guy to openly run as a liberal in the general election was Mondale, and he suffered the worst Presidential election defeat in American history.
If conservatives are so reviled, and the country is so liberal, why does a liberal ALWAYS run as a moderate if he wants to win? ;)