To the title question, Mr. Barnes gives a resounding No: "I don't think Texas has undergone a major political shift in the last twenty years, Mr. Buckley. I think the recent victory in November was a George W. Bush victory." In fact, the show winds up being largely an encomium to Mr. Bush that conservatives will find both heartening and disturbing: "The first thing that Governor Bush did when he was elected four years ago, he embraced the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Bob Bullock, and the Speaker of the House, Pete Laney, and put his arms around both of those very powerful men in Texas government and stayed there throughout the entire session. ... He was a very good bi-partisan governor during the past four years. ... I don't think Republicans run government as well as the Democrats do. And I think George Bush perhaps could change that, because he's not going to be as far to the right and as anti-government as some of the other Republican candidates."