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The part you quoted did contain that part. I didn't even click the link.
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Right. My bad. But please -- the author was not arguing what you imply, merely relating what Dionne says about missed opportunities to move to the center.
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On gay marriage, I read him as giving lip service to the religious right. He has not sent a package to Congress on this, and I think he is in favor of civil unions for gays - which is basically Kerry's position as well.
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If you are going to credit him with positions inconsistent with those he was just advocating on the marriage amendment, then aren't you also going to attack him for waffling?
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I don't see the tax cuts as the radical proposition the article suggests. Tax cuts have wide support through the GOP, not just the conservative wing. And putting the politics of it aside, a rational case can be made that the tax cuts were necessary to offset the recession. I know you don't think the structure of the cuts supports this, but we've had that discussion on numerous occassions.
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Whatever. They were not policies that moderate voters were clamoring for, to say the least.
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On the war, I again don't see it as a "conservative" position. Nearly every other recent president has chosen to enter into wars when our national security was, or was believed to be, at stake. Truman and Kennedy come quickly to mind.
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If Bush really thought our national security was threatened, then he's dangerously out of touch. In any event, the man's foreign policies have hardly tended toward the bipartisan. We can set aside the normative argument about the wisdom of his Iraq policy -- although I'm still waiting for your response to my Iraq posts the other day -- but what this blog says about their place on the political spectrum is unassailable, as a positive matter.
