House Speaker John Boehner and other gop leaders have circled the wagons, vouching for Scalise. |
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Despite a rough couple of weeks for Republicans, GOP strategists see their own political green shoots of recovery on the economy. |
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Which, needless to say, could make him a hot prospect for the GOP presidential nomination. |
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And without a doubt, the GOP has merely become a vehicle for unbridled corporate power. |
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The state GOP had challenged 35,000 registrations because mail to those addresses came back undelivered. |
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So instead, GOP senators are claiming that there's nothing wrong with naming politicized figures to the bench. |
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The GOP, meanwhile, had a 227-203 edge in the House, a gain of at least three seats, with four races still undecided at press time. |
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It's not surprising that they would exhume him now to serve his usual role as facilitator of GOP criminal ravishment. |
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Southern Republicanism has produced a solidly Southern GOP congressional leadership. |
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David Winston, head of the Winston Group, which conducts Senate GOP polls, did not return phone calls seeking comment. |
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Since he's only been in the Senate five years, the GOP oppo team will have less of a record to mine. |
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Instead, it was seared into the minds of voters that the GOP was the Party of Sore Losers. |
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It's a message that both the anti-gay leaders of the GOP and the left-liberal leaders of the lesbigay establishment both need to hear. |
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The Iowa straw poll is just another example of the general lack of enthusiasm for the GOP field. |
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After Gregoire's certification, the GOP launched a major court challenge to Gregoire's election and at one point demanded a statewide revote. |
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Tales of disrespect by GOP politicos towards blacks is common and well-known. |
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That could pull Democrats further leftward and the GOP rightward, leaving centrists in the dust. |
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Of the country's 99 state legislative chambers, the GOP lost control of six and won only four from the Democrats. |
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It was a few people around McCain, a couple editors at the Standard, and some miscellaneous other GOP malcontents and polemicists. |
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By leaving the GOP, Buchanan marginalized himself from the mainstream of American politics. |
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Not only is he wrong, he's a shill for the GOP, which makes for dull radio. |
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Will the GOP electorate be so engaged when they aren't responding to so many attacks and supporting an embattled leader? |
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This is what forces the GOP to nuclear options like constitutional amendments, violent demagoguery and impeachment. |
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Instead of seeing it as a bargaining chip, perhaps we should treat the GOP proposal as a serious governing document. |
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Johnson also accused Tea Party groups of bashing the GOP establishment to raise money. |
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It may have been the reason why Goldwater beat Rockefeller by three points, and effectively sewed up the GOP nomination. |
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Jeb Bush recently stuck a stick in the GOP beehive on immigration and common core education standards. |
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But in recent years we have seen few Arabs or Muslims become active in the GOP because of the drumbeat of anti-Muslim bigotry. |
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In fact, the GOP is a mummy-wrapped skeleton sitting in its own chilly mausoleum of bilious resentments and creepy sentimentality. |
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By contrast, George W. Bush launched two disastrous wars, and in so doing gave GOP bluster a bad name. |
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But both are delivering a booster shot of testosterone to the GOP in a way few have managed to pull off of late. |
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Branstad bragged that the state GOP has 11 field offices and new leadership devoted to raising money. |
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Republicans currently dominate the breakdown, with 27 GOP secretaries of state in the 47 states that have the position. |
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Next, the GOP should hammer away at how our roads, Bridges, and tunnels are crumbling, and push for an infrastructure initiative. |
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Another GOP member familiar with the leadership comments on this brinksmanship scenario for both sides. |
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The GOP could wind up with a brokered convention, there could be a third-party candidate. |
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Yet the brutish rhetoric inevitably coming from GOP opponents will only alienate Hispanics even more than they already are. |
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Is bushy-tailed new GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan the right choice for Mitt Romney? |
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Mitt will give a pitch-perfect, button-down speech accepting the GOP nomination Thursday night. |
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The GOP leadership is too hierarchical, too buttoned-up, too cautious, too boring. |
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In each contest, the Republican candidate outperformed the GOP result from 2012 among women voters. |
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So not only will the GOP have control in the Senate, it will move the center of gravity on Capitol Hill hard to starboard. |
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But Carson, who cites his lack of political experience as a strength, may not be equipped to play in such a strong GOP field. |
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The Frum blog has catalogued some of the more terrible suggestions for the GOP for dealing with the fiscal cliff. |
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Both are considered marginal figures in the House GOP caucus and have no real base of support for their respective bids. |
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Republican political operatives say the gains the GOP is set to make are due to a convergence of causes. |
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The GOP had to abandon the ceaseless pursuit of the last white guy in Mississippi at the expense of alienating the mainstream. |
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Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement deploring the state GOP for its failure to censure Duke. |
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So inevitably the centripetal force of the establishment GOP will move toward Jeb Bush. |
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He is running as a centrist alternative to Tea Party-aligned GOP candidate Ben Sasse and Democrat Dave Domina, a trial lawyer. |
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On State of the Union, the DNC chairwoman said the GOP is only interested in a jobs bill that would aid corporations. |
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Incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan is steadily but narrowly leading GOP challenger Thom Tillis. |
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So in the vein of March Madness, here are my picks for the Final Four of the 2014 GOP championship of crazy. |
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A GOP that lost three in a row might be chastened enough to cooperate, at least sometimes. |
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Five Dem incumbents there are in jeopardy due to a GOP redistricting plan. |
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It's cliche to say, but a GOP that is not held captive to its radical wing is in everyone's best interest. |
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Watch the most memorable moments, from his attacks on the GOP to a climactic rallying cry. |
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The GOP lives in a decrepit Hollywood mansion where Gingrich is its Norma Desmond, always ready for his closeup. |
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On the other, if he squeaks out a victory in a GOP wave year, Republicans may be skeptical that he has coattails. |
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So the House GOP leadership deserves real credit for finally getting the cojones to back immigration reform. |
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With Michele Bachmann out of the race, none of the rest of the GOP candidates seems to have any cojones. |
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Wyden is popular with GOP colleagues for his collegiality, work ethic and willingness to include their ideas in legislation. |
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It bills itself as the first stop on the road to the White House, but many GOP players skipped the New Orleans confab. |
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Just three Republicans out of 44 voted to confirm Hagel, himself a former GOP senator. |
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And, to her credit, Ann did not get nearly as whiny or confrontational as many of her GOP compadres. |
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This has threatened to prevent him from being taken seriously as a contender in the 2016 GOP primary. |
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Inhofe, as the GOP head of the committee that controls that bill, is in a good position to influence its contents. |
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But back in the 1990s, that usually took the form of fighting corporate welfare, of which he was an early GOP critic. |
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A critical mass of influential figures now demands the GOP act on immigration, one way or the other. |
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Democrats hold an advantage today with female voters that, if maintained, will dampen any potential for a GOP wave in November. |
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Take Joni Ernst, a GOP darling now favored to be the next senator from Iowa. |
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But the soothing big-tent implications offered by those who say the GOP should de-emphasize social issues only seem to go one way. |
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Kristol's defection from the pro-plutocracy wing of the GOP is an interesting indicator that, yes, change is in the air. |
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If the GOP wants to repeal or defund the law, it should build support, win elections, and pursue its goals through normal means. |
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Smith, the moderate GOP senator who was the first of her party to denounce the demagoguery of Joe McCarthy. |
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They were part of a vast left-wing media conspiracy to depress GOP turnout. |
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The former press secretary criticized GOP plans to increase tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulate banks and Wall Street. |
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At CPAC, it was hard to find any declarations of defection or desertion should Romney win selection as GOP general-in-chief. |
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The saddest thing for LaSalvia was that he had so much hope for the GOP after the 2012 election. |
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Christie is far behind, in third place in the GOP field, in the saner arena of New Hampshire. |
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If I were the GOP, I'd pass a law repealing the mandate and sit tight, daring the administration to veto it. |
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Yet in an atmosphere in which the Romney and Perry campaigns are savaging each other, Gingrich rarely attacks his GOP rivals. |
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New GOP primary challengers are looking to serve their Tea Party challengers a scalding hot cuppa change. |
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The GOP debates have already been entertaining, unpredictable, and discomfiting for the candidates. |
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The August ads have left GOP senators furious with both DeMint and Sen. Ted Cruz, who starred in a number of scf ads. |
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This is a new spin on a GOP scheme to create a more favorable Republican playing field for the 2016 presidential election. |
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The GOP leadership is already losing control of its restless, dissatisfied caucus. |
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Because Democrats dissed the Gang of Six, it virtually guarantees that the GOP will bypass it as well. |
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Marco Rubio, on the other hand, led the GOP effort to scuttle the thing on abortion-related grounds. |
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Who can forget in 2012 the double whammy of GOP Senate candidates comments about rape? |
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If he chooses to take the plunge, he will likely find himself alone in the dovish end of the GOP pool. |
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As the Texas governor inches closer to the 2012 race, he would do well to remember the lessons of another popular GOP draftee. |
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The GOP is driven in part by the fact, that three years ago, public sector union members became the majority of union members. |
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Best not to ask GOP fundraising legend Georgette Mosbacher about the state of her beloved party unless you want an earful. |
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Would he have enlivened the race with an easy-going style and populist appeal sorely lacking in the present GOP field? |
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The view may look bright at the top GOP echelon, but that does not appear to be the attitude of the rank and file. |
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The GOP also enhanced its hold on the statehouse, which the party took over two years ago. |
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The latest GOP debate was so entertainingly comical, it was like a Disney animated movie come to life. |
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These days, evangelical voters are a majority in GOP presidential primaries. |
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Ex-Im funding will now be temporarily extended, and then the GOP will figure out a way to reauthorize it for another few years. |
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There were indeed, as former GOP congressman Tom Davis eyed the lavish buffet near former secretary of state Madeleine Albright. |
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The factional divisions inside the GOP are deep, and increasingly reflect regional divides that are as much cultural as political. |
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Another was Faisal Gill, a U.S. Navy veteran, who had in the past secured the GOP nomination for the Virginia House of Delegates. |
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The GOP is Fielding its strongest slate of presidential candidates in forever. |
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You name a way to get more gals into the Texas GOP, RedState Women is fired up to make it happen. |
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However, a GOP operative who supports these laws may well be crudely pragmatic rather than bigoted. |
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Democrats' didn't get the allegiance of women by hectoring them, by saying take off that apron, GOP housewives, and join us. |
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The GOP had its ardor candidates, like Pat Buchanan in 1992, but they were understood to be temporary phenomena or unelectable. |
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Five, the tens or arguably hundreds of millions of dollars in dark money that flowed from corporate sources into GOP coffers. |
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But the GOP could assuage that tension by promulgating a hard-core, Republican version of gay and straight marriage. |
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A Republican member looks past the current backbiting to the supposed GOP Majority next year. |
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Instead, she launched into the now-very familiar GOP talking points about ballooning food stamps rolls and weak jobs reports. |
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After all, the House GOP did a bang-up job of controlling spending when they had unified control of Washington, just a decade ago. |
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In the Tea Party era, the GOP has become too revolutionary and insufficiently conservative. |
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He won in a special election upset over State Senator Neil Riser, who was considered the establishment GOP candidate. |
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This is absurd, and an insight to how the GOP is likely to win big on Tuesday. |
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So in the California GOP you have an aerodynamic nightmare, a three-winged bird. |
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It would be impossible to cure all that ailed the GOP in the course of a single calendar year. |
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Yet, 2016 may be different, as the GOP becomes ever more evangelical, Southern, blue collar, and alienated. |
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The politics look potentially most amenable in Pennsylvania, and even there a GOP legislature has to go along. |
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The GOP front-runner refused to take an antiabortion litmus test, putting support from the religious right at risk. |
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In anticipation of 2016 the GOP had better consolidate its goods and reinvent its brand. |
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Like a crazy, drunk uncle shooting an epileptic dog because he has fleas, the current GOP shuns him for all the wrong reasons. |
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The antitax phobia that has taken hold of the GOP remains the biggest obstacle to reaching a deal. |
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Todd Kincannon, a former executive director of the South Carolina GOP, says he wishes the Iraqis had killed an antiwar veteran. |
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For GOP talkers and apparatchiks, Franken's resume is almost too good to be true. |
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Bloggers brought another microphone to an already crowded GOP media table and became an appendage of talk radio. |
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Is the GOP becoming a smaller tent where dissent is grounds for banishment? |
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On the GOP side, Republicans promised that they would mount a vigorous defense of their governor. |
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Romney is delivering a Muzak version of the standard GOP refrain about unshackling capitalism and restoring belief in America. |
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If the GOP retakes the Senate, the excitement in Austin will mirror that felt by Republicans nationwide. |
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There is no question that things would be neater for the GOP if the contest were cut short. |
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We need look no further than Rep. Paul Ryan himself, the chief GOP negotiator on this deal. |
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Kristi Noem The South Dakota newbie was picked by House Republicans to serve as the freshman liaison to the GOP leadership. |
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While watching an evening newscast on the U.S. GOP primary recently, Walton came across a fresh curiosity. |
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This values debate has shown itself to be extremely useful to the GOP for decades and they are very adept at moving the goalposts when it's necessary. |
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Why a 26-year-old with no ties to the 2012 GOP nominee and no campaign experience has them worried. |
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The GOP candidate's camp didn't even have to do the vetting, thanks to this Upright Citizen's Brigade spoof. |
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Attacking comedian Zach Galifianakis is a no-win proposition for the GOP sugar daddies, says Paul Begala. |
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The broader American public is going have a lot less patience for GOP obstructionism than it did the first time around. |
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But with GOP governors slashing budgets across the country, can this odd alliance last? |
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Perry walloped her in the GOP primary, then went on to win a historic third term in the general election by a double-digit margin. |
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The Old Dominion is now a national bellwether, and the GOP is looking like anything but a national party. |
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But in Massachusetts, they're worried a waspy wonk running for governor could score another GOP upset. |
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Once a wedge issue that worked to the advantage of the GOP, gay marriage is now seen as benefiting the Democratic Party. |
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The governor may end up having an outsize role in the GOP nominating process in 2016 even if he is not a candidate. |
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Well, it performs more of a winnowing function in GOP contests, where the evangelical vote can be as high as 40 percent. |
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But his Republican party in Washington considers this conservative too wishy-washy to be prime GOP material. |
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Then again, no one can go far wrong by guessing that the wretchedly led GOP will once more deal from the bottom of the deck. |
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But it was a proxy war between the Tea Party and establishment GOP writ large in this small state. |
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Michael Tomasky on how Romney pandered to the GOP base and offered no real solutions. |
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Within these parameters, it leaves only a handful of GOP senators available to draw the short straw. |
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And needless to say it's the GOP that depends on perpetuation of the fiction. |
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If the grand pooh-bahs of the GOP think they can find someone to push her aside, their pickings seem drearily slim. |
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But the GOP presidential nominee's plan to hope for a change in the Mideast conflict is winning some plaudits. |
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Then Cruz rounded up some of the far-right members of the House GOP caucus and plotted a revolt. |
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In the GOP, controversialists like John Bolton and Elliott Abrams get plum foreign-policy jobs. |
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Jeb is presenting himself as a policy wonk and party reformer, not the typical approach to winning the GOP nomination. |
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But I see no incentive for the GOP to come to terms, and I think the potus knows it. |
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The Bush second term, the McCain candidacy, the TARP bailouts, the Party of No, left the GOP with a pouty defeatism. |
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Millennials, a generation shaped by GOP failure, are predisposed to vote Democratic. |
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The GOP has refocused its tactics as well, says Kirsten Kukowski, press secretary for the Republican National Committee. |
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The whole thing is a substantive sop to the GOP right wing wrapped in a prettier package. |
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Sin City brought out the devil in the GOP candidates tonight, delivering the most pugilistic Republican Party debate to date. |
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But, because of Louisiana's quirky election law, Maness and Cassidy won't face each other in a GOP primary. |
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So will the House GOP finally vote to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act? |
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We have seen the GOP use it effectively in the past regarding gay marriage, Muslims, blacks and Latinos. |
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At a time when the GOP is increasingly old and regionally isolated, it is up to young Republicans to modernize the party. |
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Fresh onto the GOP field, Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants to reignite a debate about federalism. |
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The GOP is seeking to revamp its image in an effort to win back the youth vote they lost in the past two presidential elections. |
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Today, the GOP released their Pledge to America, their rip-off of the popular and galvanizing 1994 Contract with America. |
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The GOP today is a rump amalgamation of plutocrats and the people who service their air conditioning. |
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He cowrote an editorial in the current issue of The Nation cautioning activists against engaging in any activities that could be spun by the GOP or the media as inappropriate. |
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The GOP has rejected that approach as too bureaucratic and pushed for an alternative that would give individuals tax credits and other subsidies to buy their own insurance. |
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The gold standard divided the party, as 24 Western delegates staged a walk out when the GOP refused to accept the unlimited coinage of gold and silver. |
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He is not aware that any Indianans were feeling their religious rights were being infringed upon, and members of the GOP in the legislature had not raised it as issue. |
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The unilateral interventionists still hold the reins of power within the GOP, largely because their champions dominate the West Wing and the Department of Defense. |
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They pour their money into primaries and try to influence the GOP outcome. |
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But rolling back enviro regulation may be tougher than the GOP expects. |
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So 2018 will shape up as another wipeout, and the Senate will flip back to the GOP again. |
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Think a GOP Senate would let her replace him, flipping the court from a conservative majority to a liberal one? |
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Then he got a brutal beatdown from a GOP foot soldier that was captured on camera and has gone viral. |
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The solution to the puzzle may be to admit that the GOP has forfeited 2012 before the general election even starts. |
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Her forte has long been a kind of easy, content-free populism aimed squarely at the lizard brain of the GOP base. |
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Given a chance to cast a free vote distancing themselves from the plan, 40 of 45 GOP senators voted yes anyway. |
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In a frightening development for the GOP, Democrats had won even traditionally Republican constituencies in the Midwest. |
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In a party without a frontrunner, and seemingly rudderless, Bush is the closest thing the GOP has to a consensus candidate. |
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Now the object of their attention is suddenly the front runner in Iowa, and a leading contender for the 2012 GOP nomination. |
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The 2008 GOP presidential flameout Mitt Romney is the 2012 GOP front runner, or so conventional wisdom has it. |
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The Florida GOP senator stormed out of the gate Wednesday in the highest of dudgeons. |
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That said, the GOP could nominate Genghis Khan and still hold the seat over the Democrats. |
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The Gingrich shutdown haunts the GOP leadership, not the newer, more radical lawmakers in the caucus. |
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The wing of the GOP that favors corporate business over free markets has gleefully worked against union interests at every turn. |
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With the South Carolina GOP primary behind him, Sen. Lindsey Graham appears to be on a glide path to re-election. |
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But will that be enough to finally put the GOP frontrunner on a glide path to the nomination after voters have their say today? |
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This is likely to be Dewhurst's second go-around losing a GOP primary in the past two years. |
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The Louisiana gov and likely GOP presidential hopeful does a 180 to please the base. |
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Along with Louisiana gov. Bobby Jindal, that gives the GOP four people of color in charge of statehouses. |
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If the GOP controls both the House and the Senate, the gridlock to come will make recent times look like a minor traffic jam. |
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But when the 114th Congress gavels into session in January, GOP speechwriters are going to need some new material. |
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It was humiliating for the GOP majority to play the handmaiden to minority leader Nancy Pelosi. |
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For some time, those contractors have faced the reality of a GOP increasingly willing to shrivel defense budgets. |
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Social conservatism is part of the shriveling slice of the pie that the GOP must somehow transcend. |
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By contrast, in the 2010 midterm election, the GOP embraced super PACs while Democrats shunned them. |
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Even as a Democrat, I am rooting for the GOP to seize this slam-dunk opportunity. |
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The GOP is still struggling to shed its hidebound, out-of-touch image, especially with voters not yet drawing Social Security. |
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There are two Mormon GOP presidential candidates, the Broadway smash hit Book of Mormon, and of course, Tabloid. |
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A hodge-podge like this may not add up to a potent message in the face of higher health costs and GOP attacks. |
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There was speculation she would clash with flinty GOP holdover Defense Secretary Bob Gates. |
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Surely, by early 2015 some of the higher profile GOP presidential aspirants will have socked away a few million dollars. |
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His skills have also been honed working for the GOP presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and Mitt Romney. |
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Half the GOP caucus will be hopping mad at him if he does let a clean CR get to the floor. |
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The ex-speaker's hot-blooded defense of his messy personal life has clicked with angry GOP voters. |
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When Santorum stood for election to a third term in Pennsylvania, the voters, including a number in the GOP, soundly rejected him. |
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One can only imagine the reaction had a GOP operative made the exact same slur against the spouse of a Democratic candidate. |
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Now the GOP, impelled by ideology matched to calculation, is trying the same game again. |
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He might have overcome his drawl, lobbying past, and imperceptible poll ratings to win the GOP nomination. |
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In the coming month, Maynard may play a crucial role in helping the GOP inch forward on this controversial issue. |
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So much for the Stockholm syndrome the GOP House leadership insists represents political reality. |
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But another GOP strategist said that Rubio is likely to look to remain in the Senate. |
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That's what strengthens the GOP primary process, and by extension, offers the American people better presidential candidates. |
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Strickland was down by double-digits in polls last month against the former GOP congressman John Kasich. |
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So why does the GOP think it can strong-arm the president into compromising on entitlements without first giving in on taxes? |
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The reaction to her selection in much of the GOP establishment ranged from stupefaction to scorn. |
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Thus it seems likely that instead of striking a new tone of moderation, the new GOP Congress will return to its old tricks. |
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The insipid GOP chairman, Michael Steele, blamed Scozzafava for endorsing the Democratic candidate, Bill Owen. |
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The GOP economic plan, insofar that it exists, calls for austerity budgets, deep tax cuts, and tight monetary policy. |
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How can the GOP overcome their shrinking electorate and see beyond the insulated conservative bubble? |
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The demise of Gaddafi adds a much-needed layer of insulation against GOP attacks as the 2012 campaign heats up. |
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Once that happens, the pressure this fiasco is putting on the GOP will subside. |
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They of all people should be standing up to GOP intransigence, not accepting it. |
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Since Southerners stopped fighting the Civil War and joined their conservative brethren in the GOP, sectional differences have become meaningless in America. |
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Hice is like the Republican version of a right-wing Frankenstein, featuring the worst elements of the GOP jammed into one person. |
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Would you ever in a jillion years suggest that your candidate take on racism within the GOP as a speech topic? |
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Red states are jockeying for greater influence on the GOP race this year by moving up their primary dates. |
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Terry Branstad is a GOP kingmaker who could lose his bid for a sixth term thanks to scandal upon scandal. |
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Paul watched his father marginalized and mocked as he was trapped by the GOP establishment determination that he was a kook. |
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Even now, the GOP still polls less well than the Democratic Party with a surly electorate. |
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Most of that largess went to pay for advertising backing GOP candidates or attacking Democrats. |
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After a sweltering day of Republican head-scratching, the Iowa GOP chose its least popular candidate as a Congressional nominee. |
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Colorado is still a swing state and, at best, will be a toss up for the GOP in November. |
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The left-wing blogosphere was all over a report that the House GOP was cutting Ebola funding. |
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Nearly 900,000 with subsidized insurance, but a GOP governor and very GOP legislature. |
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Lenore Romney beat a conservative state senator, Robert Huber, for the GOP nomination. |
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The new House report is tearing apart dozens of GOP claims about the 2012 attack. |
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To reclaim its Lincolnesque transformation, the GOP needs to fundamentally pivot on the role of government. |
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But now the texan says he wants nothing more than to help the GOP win big this November. |
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Once upon a time, the GOP was populated by theologically moderate Episcopalians and Presbyterians. |
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People on the loony right, which is to say the GOP, will say it's socialism. |
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The lower chamber had voted to approve the latest GOP continuing resolution by a vote of 228-201 on Monday evening. |
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And given her thrashing in 2008, Lauer asked, should the GOP nominee pick a more seasoned running mate than she? |
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Jesse Singal wonders why the movement is so lukewarm to the likely GOP nominee. |
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His sinking approval is undoubtedly a thumbs-down on how the GOP is handling the endless budget mess. |
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Albany functions better than it has in years, in part, at least, through his maneuvering to keep the GOP in power. |
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The pro-gun advocacy group is putting out online ads in Arkansas touting its support of Rep. Tom Cotton, the GOP Senate candidate. |
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The GOP should embrace the work ethic as its mantra, and this time act like they mean it. |
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If you wanted create a scandal to have maximal appeal to GOP base freakout, this is it. |
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But as Michael Tomasky argues, the true fault lies with the GOP and its maximalist demands. |
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In the coming days, Ayers, among others, will be trooping up to the Hill to discuss the issue with GOP players. |
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With his trouncing of Kay Bailey Hutchison in the primary, Gov. Rick Perry is no longer under the GOP radar. |
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The dynamics of a meltdown of the GOP majority would be different from that and so would the legislative outcomes. |
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But look for any breach between the GOP establishment powerhouse and the Tea Party-backed Paul to be mended very quickly. |
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And when it comes to faith, family, and financial success, the more the merrier as far as the GOP is concerned. |
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After almost a month since the last debate, the GOP candidates take to the stage in mesa, Arizona Wednesday night. |
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Perhaps no member of the GOP has been as successful at this two-step as Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. |
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None of this feared Republican virility is any more real than the charge that the GOP manufactured the Turfers. |
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Weber was an early endorser of fellow minnesotan Tim Pawlenty in the 2012 GOP presidential primaries. |
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But there is an explanation for the GOP refusal to act on unemployment insurance. |
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But the elephant in the room of the 2012 GOP field is that it is both unsettled and unimpressive. |
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The GOP is uninterested in major new spending programs, and moreover, they have public opinion on their side. |
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For one, the GOP needs to realize that there is no monolithic way of thinking in black America. |
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Both Republican policies and offensive statements made by some GOP politicians have had a hand in this. |
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But there are some compelling reasons to view the advantages that ruling gave the GOP in 2010 as something of a monkey's paw. |
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Along the way, the GOP yearns to privatize and pulverize Medicare and Social Security. |
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The state GOP was desperate to unseat him in its effort to take control of the legislature. |
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That was clear and pretty popular, whereas today, the GOP message is muddled and unpopular. |
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They were the women voters who turned to the GOP in the past when things got unsettled internationally. |
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Koskinen is just the latest target for GOP venting over the emails and what the agency insists was an unsolvable IT problem. |
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A clique of GOP lawmakers say the debt ceiling crisis is a hoax. |
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Even as out-of-power Democrats act like establishmentarians, the city's ascendant GOP riding class retain the instincts of revolutionaries. |
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The biggest impact of a GOP takeover will be on appointments. |
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Eric Cantor was a noxious, cookie-cutter, U.S. Chamber, GOP hypocrite. |
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To present the GOP as a party committed to alleviating party. |
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Eleanor Clift on how they are spotlighting cuts in GOP districts. |
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A black Southern Democrat defecting to the GOP is pretty big news. |
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Robert Shrum on the four tricks the GOP might use to wrest back control. |
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Yet he seemed interested only in recasting GOP concepts in his own idiom. |
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If the Palinistas seize the GOP, they probably cannot take the White House. |
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Since then, GOP nominees have won the popular vote only once. |
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The conventional wisdom has it that this cycle is a GOP wave election. |
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While the GOP now commands a majority in the House, and made inroads in the Senate, the Bay State remains decidedly a blue state. |
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No, not the GOP, but the whig Party, the original party of Lincoln. |
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At the time, it looked like a glancing blow to the GOP campaign. |
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But the GOP lawmakers are happy to take home the news that they have held the line against deficit spending. |
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Mike Lofgren loyally served the GOP on Capitol Hill for 28 years. |
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We know the GOP is eager to recapture the corner office, but an intraparty fight over ballot access isn't going to help. |
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However, this gender gap is fairly typical for many of the current GOP candidates. |
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Ted Cruz, the other GOP White House hopeful from Texas, has also stressed that it is up to South Carolinians whether they want the flag removed. |
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The GOP showed resolve in continuing programmed eradication despite violent attacks by narcoterrorists against counternarcotics authorities. |
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Like the Koch Brothers, it seemed Rastetter wanted to be a GOP kingmaker. |
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