It has been many decades since the Moderate/Liberals of the post-war GOP left that party and the Conservatives won control. Prominent Republicans of that period include the likes of George Romney, a Rockefeller Republican and Governor of Michigan, and Prescott Bush, a friend of Nelson Rockefeller often in agreement with him on positions. Their lineage ran for elected office as well, but as the party became Conservative, so did the descendents. George W. Bush was certainly no Liberal in the White House, and Mitt Romney is doing his damndest not to be seen as one. Newt Gingrich supported Rockefeller in '64 (though I don't know if he was a Rockefeller Republican). And they're not the only ones who came from families in the Rockefeller wing, or started off there themselves before becoming Conservatives to maintain political office.
Had the Rockefeller wing remained intact and with reasonable power for whatever reason, what would these people have been like in office and like as politicians? And who would the major figures be that now are not so major in the Republican party?
Had the Rockefeller wing remained intact and with reasonable power for whatever reason, what would these people have been like in office and like as politicians? And who would the major figures be that now are not so major in the Republican party?