Are you talking about W or HW? I'd say it fits HW better than W. Lest you forget, W's criticisms, generally, were all of his own making. HW, now he was raked against the coals.
Pence 2020
Pence 2024
Fix Fail
If you want boring, you have to let Trump do all the heavy lifting - then Pence can play GHWB to Trump's Reagan
Nor Republican.Is there such thing as a “moderate Democrat” anymore?
Regardless where he grew up, his policies (and I believe his personal ideology) is FAR more centrist than the current slate of Dem presidential candidates.
There is a wide gulf between left-leaning and leftist.