How is the Republican Party changing?
The National Conservative Coalition that Regan really laid the ground work for at Gold water came into power in 1994 with Newt Gingrich and The Republican Revolution and they had the House and the Senate but then when George Bush came in as a Social Conservative also he brought in the idea of compassionate conservatism. So his critics on the right deride as Gritz called big government conservatism, which means we're going to use the government just like the Democrats did to push a conservative agenda. And that has actually caused some tension within the Republican Party that has some potential to cause the Party to change. Now again we're kind of at a turning point minor or major we won't know until history tells us in the Republican Party as to how much that coalition can keep itself together and the social conservative versus the more business orientated and libertarian aspects of the Republican Party. And right now you see that different candidates for the Republican nomination kind of take on different aspects of the Republican Party but no one embodies it the same way that Ronald Regan did. And so the party is at kind of that turning point either that coalition is going to start to fracture and a new coalition is going to have form later on or we'll see if that coalition can continue to hold on.
