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Many Republicans feel that the state GOP has begun to develop a positive identify during the past two years. The efforts of Volpe and Richardson and Brooke have taught the voters, they claim, to think of Republicans as more than reformers and seat-warmers who preserve the status quo between Democratic administrations...
...this supposed change in the Republican image--from that of care-taker to that of energetic and informed statesman -- that inspires the feeling that Republicans can now win without downplaying the party. GOP leaders feel that their task is to protect and strengthen this new-found positive identity. Thus, they would have been especially embarrassed by an inability to present a full slate of candidates to their fellow Republicans in the September primary. A lack of candidates would have been a sure sign that the vote-getting power of the Republican image is still slight...
...Attorney General said that the "wide gap between the thinking of the leaders, so called, and the members" is the Republican Party's greatest problem. To revive the party, he indicated, it necessary to remove some of the GOP's leaders...
...Republican Party's numerical representation in the Senate and the House "is in a worse state than in the depths of the depression." Chafee said to an audience of Young Republicans at the Freshman Union. Nor could Chafee fore see any substantial gains for the GOP in either legislative branch next year...
...hero must not only want victory: he must lust after it. Kennedy, Roosevelt, Truman in '48, all drove themselves relentlessly. Johnson, as we all know, was and is a man obsessed. Goldwater was obsessed too, but with his fuzzy Conservatism and his supposed enemies in the GOP, not with the Presidency