Bill Clinton: New-look GOP makes Bush look liberal

Bubba, when you're right, you're right.

MINNEAPOLIS – Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that the Republican Party is embracing "ideology over evidence" and pushing out pragmatic voices that would make even his White House successor seem like a liberal.

Clinton, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in Minneapolis, said there was no mistaking that Republicans have tacked hard right and questioned whether former President George W. Bush would fit in among the party's candidates this year.

I liked several things about George Bush, but his tendency to channel Lyndon Johnson was not one of them.