Bill Clinton recently made comments about how the GOP is shifting too far to the right (read: too far away from increasing the power of the State). Clinton also said the changes make George Bush appear to have been a liberal president, according to FoxNews.com.
The GOP is not shifting too far to the right; it is, hopefully, due to new involvement, switching away from the position of both parties, that of increasing government power in nearly any way possible. The Tea Party was originally about downsizing government, although unfortunately due to some involvement of more mainstream pundits, it has shifted away from this focus.
The problem with Clinton's comments is, from the perspective of some of the up-and-coming leaders in the GOP, Bush was too liberal. Bush gets much of the same unfair reputation as Hoover for being a "conservative president." Hoover was far from conservative, more than doubling taxes on the highest bracket for one of the largest peacetime increases in history. Bush, meanwhile, thrust America into two wars we never should have been involved in, only perpetuating our problems in foreign affairs by entangling us more overseas.
Election of members of the "Tea Party" is a sign that Americans are fed up with the consistent growth of government and its intrusion into their lives. Hopefully, these newly elected candidates will stick to the "Tea Party's" original goal: that of shrinking the State.
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