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Organizers of the campus groups supporting two of the GOP frontrunners—former Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney, a graduate of both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, and Arizona Senator John McCain—said they were unable to give specific membership numbers for their groups...
Newt Gingrich confesses his serial marital sins to Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and wins absolution; Mitt Romney admits the error of his earlier tolerance of abortion rights. John Edwards seldom misses a chance to repent of his vote for the war, to highlight Hillary Clinton's refusal to do likewise. As for paying for past mistakes, Barack Obama took care of $400 worth of parking tickets left over from his law-school days--two weeks before he announced his candidacy...
...Most Americans (54 percent) have an “unfavorable impression” of atheists, regarding then as godless loose cannons without any grounded sense of morality. (Even in 2002, the Pew Center found that the corresponding number for Muslims was only 29 percent.) This prejudice lets politicians like Mitt Romney say, “We need a person of faith to run this country” and not receive even a mummer of criticism for establishing a theism litmus test. In fact, his statement is almost necessarily true, because, even though most voters wouldn’t disqualify...
...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...
...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...