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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (47364)	12/10/2010 2:20:34 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

I was the one who brought up "the change". The change I was referring to was the change in the level of Republican concern over the growth of government and of deficits. As I pointed out that level of concern went away fairly quickly one the Republicans where defeated on the whole "shut down the government" battle. Certainly the defeat was not the only reason. Having a Republican who didn't seem to care much about deficits become president and push spending influenced Republicans in congress, and (probably to a lesser extent) Republicans in general, but much of the change had already happened before Bush II was elected, or even nominated. In the Republican climate that existed at the height of the Gingrich era, Bush probably would not have gotten the nomination, at least not without changing the way he campaigned. But by the time the nomination battle came around Republican "movers and shakers" and to an extent the rank and file, had moved away from concerns about deficits and big government. Sure there was still a solid element against such things, but they where marginalized, after being fairly dominant within the party several years earlier.