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...there is one thing the McCain campaign is very good at, it's knowing when the election is," he adds, noting McCain's come-from-behind victory in the Florida primary. "He's a closer." Republican political consultant Cory Tilley, a top aide to former Florida governor Jeb Bush, argues that McCain is "doing the right thing to raise doubts about Obama's record and judgment. No campaign wants to be sitting down the day after an election asking, 'Did we not do everything we could?' " But, Tilley concedes, "this is a different Florida landscape than it was four years...
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...Jeb Bush, the "good" son (played by Jason Ritter), is a fleeting presence in W., as is mother Barbara (Ellen Burstyn), and Neil, Marvin and Dorothy are virtual no-shows. The secret sibling is Stone himself, who, like Dubya, came from a wealthy family and entered Yale in 1964. He left after a year and wound up in Vietnam, where his destiny ambushed him. Perhaps the political biography Stone really should put on film is John McCain...
...election bid two years later. The moderate Republican minority leader Bob Michel faced his own insurrection from conservatives, including Armey and Newt Gingrich, who became Speaker when the GOP won the House in 1994. "There are two or three Gingrich-type figures in the House, say Mike Pence or Jeb Hensarling, but they would come to the role reluctantly," Armey says. "Though, sometimes the conditions raise somebody, force them...
...meantime, House GOP factions jockeyed to have their proposals included in whatever new bill is negotiated - many boasting that they (unlike their leaders) can deliver the necessary votes if their ideas are adopted. Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a group of fiscal conservatives in the House, sent a letter to the group's 100-plus members advocating their involvement in a solution. "House conservatives have authored many alternatives that would work if only the Administration and the Democrat majority are willing to meet us halfway," Hensarling wrote. Representative Darrell Issa pushed a plan that he has advocated...