Word: gop
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...right to free speech -- thus the attempt to amend the Constitution. "Dorgan and Conrad?s decision seems largely a move to protect themselves on the patriotism front, without giving Republicans the political win they want," says Dickerson. But their decision is unlikely to sideline the issue for good -- the GOP has found it to be a rallying point among its supporters. "Republicans believe it works better than prayers in the schools or abortion," says Dickerson. "It?s a nice safe hot-button issue that can activate a lot of suburban voters...
...would like to do something that?s just enough to give them cover,? says Dickerson. Should they fail, there are plenty of people who are willing to take the gun control issue into the 2000 campaign -- including one prominent Republican presidential candidate. Seeking to distinguish herself from the conservative GOP presidential pack, Elizabeth Dole told an audience earlier this week that she?s against concealed weapons and in favor of child-safety locks on guns...
...Bush will be able to take only $250 each from them. Though the undeclared GOP candidate raised a whopping $7.6 million in the first quarter, he's trying to amass enough loot to opt out of the public-financing system and its spending limits; so he's hoping for the maximum $1,000 from as many deep pockets as possible. Other G-37 victims: New Jersey's Republican governor Christine Todd Whitman, who's running for Senate, and New York GOP mayor Rudy Giuliani, if he runs. They can't even take the $250 unless the donor lives in their...
...completed until the issue (and this President) have long since moved on. President Clinton and his aspiring veep are caught between defenders of the First Amendment (the Hollywood types who donate to the Democrats) and those of the Second (the gun types who give to the GOP). How to lead, and not rile either one with a big election looming? Invite everyone else you can think of, call it a third way, and send in the doctors. Maybe they'll advise us to quit...
...current war, and that the country is not ready to fight in a second theater should another crisis suddenly arise. The strategy of attacking the President?s military policy in the midst of a war has its risks. "Democrats can certainly be counted on to argue that the GOP is merely playing politics," says Dickerson. "And Republicans are also mindful of the fact they have lost in past showdowns with the President." But the party believes it has a winning issue over military readinesss -- if it is handled carefully -- no matter what happens on the Kosovo battlefront...