Remarks to New Members of the Republican Party
06/25/1989
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I don't view it as redemption. I view it as smart and logical.
Then Governor George W. Bush famously warned about that, quote, 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'
If I could make it for him, it would be run. But I can't. And I don't know what he's going to do. He'd be a great candid...
No, it was never strained. That's -- I think that's the mythology that's -- that we've escaped.