Word: gop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday in the campaign fall of 1996, Barry Goldwater turned to his friend Bob Dole and in a few choice words summed up both the Goldwater legacy and its current relevance to the GOP power structure. "We're the new liberals of the Republican party," Goldwater said. "Can you imagine that...
...disaster for the candidate but a war won for the Republicans. Goldwater had wrested the nomination process from the kingmakers in the East, and though it ended in one of the worst defeats in American electoral history, Goldwater's brash, shoot-from-the-hip candidacy had given the GOP new energy and a new self-image -- a party of Marlboro Men, of rugged individualists, of small government and wide freedoms. A party of true Conservatives. And after four years of licking his wounds, the Senator from Arizona regained his seat and became its elder statesman...
...keep it that way. The small eight-person select committee he assembled Wednesday to address the issue is built for discretion and dignity, and its Republican chairman, Christopher Cox, has already achieved in his first round of interviews a credibility level of which Dan Burton never dreamed. In the GOP, the word is out: This is a big one. Let's not fumble the ball...
...letter, GOP members of congress said "such comments are repugnant to the notion of religious freedom," and they asked Clinton to repudiate Blumenthal's remarks...
...Hubbell tapes. One small success for the Democrats: They managed to block Burton's attempt to give immunity to four potential committee witnesses, whom Chairman Dan believes possess key knowledge of illegal foreign donations to the Clinton campaign. Now Newt Gingrich will transfer the immunity issue to a GOP-dominated committee -- and Burton lives to shoot pumpkins another...