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That passion is so strong that many young Republicans consider themselves farther to the right than their standard bearer. "The president is not as conservative as we would like," says Spadea...
...their all-egoist ticket. It is Jackson-Cuomo or Cuomo-Jackson. Naturally, the two are unwilling and unable to decide which of them should be at the top of the ticket. They bicker constantly, each with his own polls proving that he deserves to be his party's standard bearer. They ignore the opposition and battle to the end, to Jan. 20, 1997, when they are spied jockeying for position in the audience to watch the inauguration of President Quayle...
Under pressure, Crimean leaders backed down and rescinded the resolution, & but not before Russian Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, the Kremlin's standard-bearer for increasingly influential Russian nationalists, blasted Ukrainian politicians for portraying Russia as "an insidious empire" and trying to break up the Commonwealth. "The referendum in Crimea must be held, and no one can ban it with force or with threats," Rutskoi insisted in a newspaper article. Two days later, in a closed-door session, the Russian parliament upped the ante by voting to annul the 1954 transfer of the Crimea to Ukraine as "an illegal...
...view...is that he is running [now] forpresident in 1996," Ellis said. "[He] is using1992 to become the standard-bearer for theconservative cause...
...There is a good field of people running this year," said Lombardo. "What will determine who will be in the [presidential] election will be voter turnout...But it won't matter who will be the standard bearer in the election because anybody is better than Bush...