Word: gop
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Paul BILLBOARD greets GOP delegates...
MARCH 4 After lingering for weeks, Huckabee concedes, allowing McCain to declare victory and "claim with confidence, humility and a great sense of responsibility" that he will be the GOP nominee...
...however, New Orleans' fate has been largely absent from the campaign conversation. Its few appearances have been more rhetorical than substantive - a way for the Democrats to attack the GOP's record rather than to propose what to do about a city that remains in crisis. Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick referred to it briefly: "The same folks who call themselves 'compassionate conservatives' are the same folks who abandoned all those people, not only after Katrina, but before the storm. The American people have had enough." Bill Clinton used Katrina to assail the Bush Administration for cronyism. Yet amid a riveting...
...dumb question." When asked if he would keep the straight talk coming, McCain replied, "You think I could survive if I didn't? We'd never be forgiven ... I'd have to hire a food taster, somebody to start my car in the morning." Even after he won the GOP nomination, he demanded that his new campaign plane be configured to include a sofa up front so he could re-create the Straight Talk Express...
...anointed leader of the party establishment he has antagonized so often. He has a real chance to extend his public service to the Oval Office and an abiding conviction that these perilous times require his leadership. But getting there in a year when so much is stacked against the GOP may require him to play by rules that don't always conform to the code of honor to which he subscribes...