I'll bet Christie Whitman won't be getting a Christmas card from the White House this year. I was never much of a fan of hers but I think I'm going to love this book. Start the countdown to the smear campaign. The Sunday talk shows will no doubt have a few chats about this topic.
"A clear and present danger Republicans face today is that the party will now move so far to the right that it ends up alienating centrist voters and marginalizing itself," Whitman writes in the book, obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
Whitman says fellow moderates, such as former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, were instrumental in Bush's re-election win, often campaigning with him in battleground states.
