party. there's an abhorance of compromise and they are traitors to be destroyed. >> e.j. dionne, do you hear echos of goldwaterism here? >> in jeff's great book on the decline and fall of modern republicans, what you realize is that i think the republican party has never been the same since goldwater. you used to have a lot of liberals in it, javitz and case and ed broke. those liberals are gone. and most people who are now called moderates are really just moderate conservatives. there's a great post in "the washington post" from trent lott who basically said i used to be on the right flank, and i quote him now, and now i'm an establishment moderate.