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Hutchison also has ignored the counsel of Texas election experts, according to Kronberg, opting to follow outsider campaign advice and tried to cast herself to the right of Perry. "You are never going to get to the right of Perry," Kronberg says. While Hutchison has a high conservative ranking - the American Conservative Union gives her a 90% lifetime rating - she is labeled a moderate on issues like abortion and stem-cell research. Unlike Perry, whose secessionist talk made news, Hutchison eschews red-meat rhetoric and favors prim suits and soft-toned speech...
...rather than focus-group language, is her default position. At the end of the interview, Wallace asked what role she wanted to play in the country's future. "Well, first and foremost, I want to be a good mom," she replied. And then, in closing, Wallace asked, "Can I get a 'You betcha...
...already running a deficit? That's not what Americans do: they sit - inevitably - around the kitchen table and tighten their belts. And what's all this about global warming? The White House is up to its Truman Balcony in snow. And why not just whack the Iranians before they get the bomb? These questions were the essence of Palin's Nashville speech and Fox interview. They are the essence of the tea party movement...
...German pensioners were bent on revenge, prosecutors say. So they allegedly did what some who've lost fortunes in the downturn have probably thought about at one point or another: they allegedly abducted their financial adviser and locked him in a cellar for days, demanding he help them get their money back. Now the retirees - all over the age of 60 - are on trial for kidnapping, and they seem as feisty and unrepentant as ever...
...get beyond that image, Yanukovych will have to give substance to his rhetoric and show a real commitment to democratic principles and reforms of the opaque energy sector. He will also need to force Big Business to play by the rules. Success there will depend on how he handles his powerful corporate backers, who are pulling him in different directions. One wing of supporters is made up of industrialists from the East who are interested in European markets; the other reportedly makes its money from the gas trade with Russia. "Yanukovych is very much influenced by the circles around...