Word: mehlman
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Just before Christmas, the pals had a Last Supper of steak and wine at the Caucus Room, a lobbyists' hangout just off Capitol Hill. "Half the people in this room will be unhappy in a year and a half," Ken Mehlman, the Bush-Cheney campaign manager, told them. But he said that what matters is how they conduct themselves and that they come back together to work for the nominee. An attendee says Madden told several of his elders who are going to work for McCain, "I may take a chunk out of you. But at least...
...Iowa Republican, was a terrific public servant for 30 years. He was always independent, always scrupulously honest. He lost this year, and the manner of his losing is instructive. He refused to allow the Republican National Committee to distribute a negative mailing about his opponent. He called Ken Mehlman, then the r.n.c. chair, and threatened to caucus with the Democrats if such negative mailings didn't stop. They stopped, but the Congressman lost narrowly to an academic named Dave Loebsack, who had similarly refused to attack him. A former foreign service officer, Leach would make a terrific U.S. ambassador...
Kick-starting his run for the White House four years early, the perennially well-coiffed Mitt morphed into a talking-points Ken doll (Mehlman that is, although his handsome, rather plasticine features are reminiscent of the Mattel icon), traveling around the country and spouting Republican dogma when wound up. And when he is in Massachusetts, he utilizes his powers as chief executive largely as a mechanism by which to appeal to the Republican Party base...
...Ford's loss doesn't mean that we're back in 1956. But to lose over the ancient fear of miscegenation is ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the G.O.P.'s attempts to woo blacks across the country. This was the year when President Bush addressed the NAACP, Ken Mehlman made very big appeals to African Americans, and Republicans fielded a dazzling array of black candidates. But all of them, with the exception of Michael Steele, lost by large margins. Steele came close to beating his Democratic opponent in the Maryland Senate race, Ben Cardin, but black voters still went...
...campaign's closing day, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman sent supporters a cheery memo labeled simply "Momentum," pointing to a variety of independent national polls that suggest a tightening in the G.O.P.'s favor. "Republican enthusiasm is growing," he says, adding graphs and data contending the party is "picking up more swing votes." The memo says the party's turnout machine, the vaunted "72-Hour Program," reached 3 million voters on Saturday alone...