Actually, I'm still trying to wrap my head around this:

"Republicans note that when the party lost in 1960, 1976 and 1992, conservatives could mount the argument that moderates - Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford and George H. W. Bush - had been given their chance in the party and had lost it. But if Mr. Bush goes down on Nov. 2, it would be the first time that a clear conservative candidate who Republicans had expected to win was defeated."

I just can't imagine how ANYONE could consider Nixon and Bush I moderates! I mean, when I think Republican moderate, I'm not even thinking John McCain, much less Arlen Spector! I'm thinking Jim Jeffords, who defected and cost the Republicans control of the Senate, Lincoln Chaffee of Rhode Island, and Olympia Snowe of Maine.

But Nixon a moderate?