Word: gop
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...Mike Murphy's "Here Be Monsters" [Nov. 3]: To compare the ACORN incident, in which a few paid workers filled out bogus voter registrations (which were detected, reported and purged by ACORN) for financial gain, with the massive and well-documented efforts by the GOP to suppress and steal votes is beyond biased. Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 were called Democratic on the basis of exit polls before mysteriously ending up on the GOP side, costing the Democrats both elections. In the two cases, state officials at the helm of the electoral process were GOP loyalists, intimately involved...
Still, after last night’s blowout, conservatives have a blueprint for reform. They must adapt conservatism to the needs of the day and inject some life into their party. If they fail, the GOP will continue to sputter, and Democrats will be eager to pick up the scraps...
...44th President of the United States. I grew up in Arizona, the very state McCain represents, and my political coming of age was largely tied up in his own political ascendancy. I remember accompanying family members to the polls to cast their votes for McCain in the 2000 GOP Primary, which he eventually lost to George W. Bush. I’ve never been a great Bush fan—I probably would’ve voted for John Kerry in 2004 had I been old enough—and like many liberals, I too have spent the last several...
...believed that McCain could be that change. Earlier this year, when McCain finally clenched the GOP nomination, I wept tears of joy, much to the bewildered disgust of my liberal friends. To me, the prospect of a McCain presidency was the realization of my conservative dreams. Like many of his supporters, I had always believed that McCain’s biggest political stumbling block was winning a party nomination. I figured that a general election victory would be a breeze, because he appealed to so many moderates. Obviously, I have been proven wrong by this election cycle...
James Dobson may be the only Evangelical whose Sunday school teacher apparently never warned him to be careful what he prayed for. Two weeks before Election Day, the Focus on the Family founder chatted with Sarah Palin on his radio show and shared his backup plan for the struggling GOP ticket. He was, Dobson told her, praying for "God's intervention" and that "God's perfect will be done on November...