Word: gop
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...fact, this year's deeper class divide is among Republicans. The party's blue-collar base is furious over illegal immigration and has begun to notice that the GOP's business wing is keeping the borders porous. McCain, whose position on immigration is more chamber of commerce than Lou Dobbs, may get caught in the cross fire, with nativist Republicans opting for a third party or simply staying home. All of which suggests that the media's fretting about beer and wine Democrats is misplaced. The party that's likely to have trouble holding its liquor this fall...
...Rating a Renegade Telling the truth can sometimes be a detriment to political fortune. However, McCain's reputation as the most honest man in Washington [Feb. 4]will help him win his party's nomination this year, particularly since GOP moderates have finally started to reclaim their party from neocon fundamentalists. Love him or hate him, McCain is the real deal. His credibility juxtaposed with Mitt Romney's flip-flopping will further underscore McCain's credibility this election cycle, virtually guaranteeing him the nomination. Jeff Robertson, FAIRBORN, OHIO...
...right wing spews venom at McCain for his occasional departures from conservative orthodoxy, but it is precisely his maverick nature that the general public most admires. The GOP's troglodytes must either support McCain or watch the Democrats take both the White House and the Capitol in November...
...dominant narrative for the rest of the Republican race could be McCain's uneasy relationship with the right. Though the Arizona Senator has solidified his claim to the GOP nomination, he still finds himself in a struggle to win over the party's skeptical conservatives without turning off the swing voters he'll need to win the White House. He was the big winner of Super Tuesday delegates, but he captured only nine states, including six blue ones, while Romney and Huckabee combined to win 12 states, including 10 red ones. McCain has owned independents and moderates, but Huckabee thumped...
...true conservative. He opposed President George W. Bush's tax cuts, but now he vows to make them permanent. He fought to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, but now he says his top priority is securing the border. That's been the strangest thing about the GOP race: For all the conservatives' complaints about the candidates, they've taken conservative positions on most issues. Conservatism can be in the eye of the beholder, but with the notable exceptions of Ron Paul's opposition to the Iraq war and some of Huckabee's populist economic rhetoric, the candidates haven...