The New Initiatives of George W. Bush A primary component of the Bush directive is his repeatedly passionate call for his party to involve a larger spectrum of voters, a message that should allure to the Independent and Democratic voters that Senator John McCain (Arizona) has been enticing. On that account, we notice a more compassionate conservative platform from George W. Bush. His views on education and taxes can be summarized as “mushy moderation” as Steve Forbes has stated (Foer, 1), or one of an “...older tradition of Republicanism - one that calls itself ‘reformist’ and begins with Teddy Roosevelt” (Foer, 2), that i