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WASHINGTON, D.C.: After an election that saw voters deal the GOP's presidential candidate a convincing loss and the party's combative House Speaker a stern warning, the man who has emerged as the national leader of the Republican party was Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Lott, who took over...
Long before he knew the exact makeup of the House, Gingrich knew that his majority would be smaller, his freshmen chastened and, as Clinton completed his tack to the center, that the leverage of moderate Republicans would increase. There are nearly two dozen members of Gingrich's caucus who are...
Perhaps the trickiest role belongs to Gephardt, the House minority leader. Clinton came back from his Little Rock economic summit in 1992 saying, "I love Dick Gephardt!" But after Gephardt opposed NAFTA and pushed Clinton away from centrist measures such as welfare reform, their interests diverged. A centrist who turned...
A handful of Republican moderates have started to talk about establishing an institutional counterweight to the right wing. Their analysis is familiar. The candidates most likely to win presidential elections can't get past the conservatives who control the party's nominating processes. So they want to start a centrist...
How far will they go? "The moderates have the best argument," says neoconservative turned neoliberal Michael Lind, author of Up from Conservatism. "It remains to be seen if they have the same organization." Republican centrists are a dwindling breed. In the Senate, conciliators like Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, William Cohen...