I saw this post from Esmeralda on LP (#38).... "I have been listening to Rush since 91 and he has always mentioned the fact that the country club Republicans hated the Reagan Republicans, they were embarrassed by them actually. The country clubbers could not win their way out of a paperbag. Does anyone remember Christy Whitman from NJ, she wrote a book about taking her party back, this is exactly what she wanted. A very close relative of mine is privvy to the GOP in DC, the future plans for the Party are not anything close to a conservative platform, you would not recognize it." http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=214692&Disp=47#C47
....and it rang a bell. I searched through my old political ephemera and came up with a flyer from 1996 announcing a "Picnic In The Park" in Arlington (TX) for Texas Republican Candidate For Governor George W. Bush & N.J. Governor Christine Todd Whitman.
If that doesn't beat all. It can't be a coincidence that Bush has destroyed the Republican Party and driven it towards the present GOP envisioned by Christine Whitman that Esmeralda referenced above. Perhaps that has been his plan since 1996 or earlier?? I'll leave it to some of you to supply further details, perhaps some of you have Whitman's book in your collection??