No one blinked an eye from the conservative side
Well, the Republican party might not have raised a big stink about it, but plenty of conservatives were definitely complaining.
Edit: colindoc84 almost has a good point, so edited.
Well, the Republican party might not have raised a big stink about it, but plenty of conservatives were definitely complaining.
Edit: colindoc84 almost has a good point, so edited.
The Democrats do the same thing: Clinton wasn't a real "democrat" because he signed NAFTA and reformed welfare. Obama "wasn't real" because he couldn't end the wars, close GITMO or reform the finance industry. (a number of other items)
Of course you can split things much further than that; nothing really stops you from being an anti-abortion otherwise-social-liberal, but I really think failing to split out social/fiscal leaves you really baffled by who is aligned with who.