Mark Rozell
Mark Rozell
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The Bush-hating phenomenon was not so important until the president's popularity more generally started to decline - at which point the voices of Bush's strongest opponents take on much more importance, because much of public opinion is beginning to dovetail with the views of those who haven't liked Bush from the beginning.
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I think Tom Davis is about as safe as an incumbent can be these days. Davis strikes a pretty good middle ground for his constituents.
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He doesn't want to fight battles unnecessarily and create a distance between himself and his party.
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I remember the conference director said words to the effect that Robertson is one more nutty comment away from becoming irrelevant. Since then, Robertson has made a number of such comments--on China's one-child policy, about wishing for a nuke to take out the State Department building in D.C., among others. It's as though he can't help himself. Oftentimes his comments anger his own supporters the most.
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There was a flurry of legislative activity in the Roosevelt years and there were many factions in the Democratic Party which seldom spoke with one voice. So there was a lot of disagreement.