Word: mitt
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...most storied annual gathering of conservatives was anything but triumphal. John McCain, the Establishment favorite to win the 2008 Republican nomination, skipped CPAC entirely but did show up on David Letterman the night before, choosing the most aggressively glib venue to semiofficially announce his candidacy. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was there to make his pitch for 2008 but had to compete with a man who was working the crowd in a dolphin costume and a T-shirt identifying him as "Flip Romney: Just another flip flopper from Massachusetts." Ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani barely mentioned the social issues...
...known social moderate, Sandra Day O'Connor, as his first Supreme Court pick. Then there's opposition to illegal immigration, another supposed Reagan legacy. Except that in 1986 Reagan signed a law granting amnesty to illegal immigrants who had lived continuously in the U.S since 1982. If John McCain, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani aren't "Reaganesque," neither - by current standards - was Reagan himself...
...Today's Republican Party is beginning to resemble the Democratic Party of the 1980s: a collection of activists demanding purity on an ever-lengthening list of parochial concerns. It's not enough that Mitt Romney now opposes abortion and gay rights; he supported them in the past. It's not enough that John McCain has a long anti-abortion record; he criticized Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. In recent years, while the Democratic Party has shed its litmus tests on the death penalty and gun control, and recruited pro-lifers to run for Congress, the G.O.P. has been adding litmus...
...state could even join the Feb. 5 rush. Rudy Giuliani and Clinton should do well, given the dense population near New York. UTAH Old: Late February New: Feb. 5 G.O.P. competition will be fierce. The state's Governor endorses John McCain, but many legislators back Mitt Romney...
...three men—senior campaign advisers for Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and Mitt Romney—also discussed some of the issues surrounding their candidates in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum...