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...State. But he may be surprised to find a very different - and more divided - Republican Party from the one he left behind eight years ago. Rural conservatives in the party are losing clout to more moderate and urban forces, while a potentially nasty internal battle for the governor's mansion in 2010 is brewing...
...talk of Texas politicos these days, in fact, centers on another politician returning home from the nation's capital, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. The two-term Republican senior Senator has her eye on the governor's mansion, currently held by Republican Rick Perry, who has already announced his intention to run for re-election, to an unprecedented third full term. (See pictures of President George W. Bush...
...that sense, Hutchison's more moderate Republican stance may be just what Texas voters have been looking for. Since being elected to the Senate in 1993, she has always won with more than 60% of the vote. But Perry, the former lieutenant governor who moved into the governor's mansion when Bush left for Washington in 2000, has also proved popular, serving longer than any other Texas governor in history...
...hopeful note, Los Angeles' Playboy Mansion, Shangri-la for so many 22-year-old males, seems safe for now. As one staffer puts it, "I can't imagine a scenario in which the mansion does not survive...
...long run, Bush clearly believes, the gaze of history will settle a few hundred yards to the southeast of the Miracle on the Hudson, on the spot where jets hammered skyscrapers and there were no happy endings. Speaking for the last time from the President's mansion, Bush recalled that his first such speech was on the evening of Sept. 11, 2001. An easy trick for his speechwriters would have been to toss in a few lines about the skill and courage of his countrymen on the plane in the river, but Bush decided not to go there...