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...running behind John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee in most surveys - his exact position depending on who the pollsters think is going to come out and vote. He neither helped nor hurt himself in Saturday night's ABC/Facebook debate - though he did seem to invoke Ronald Reagan's name nearly every time he spoke...
This is the exact opposite of blaming the victim; it's blaming the customer - because Romney and his staff insist that the product itself is not flawed. "Romney represents the best candidate to continue beyond Iowa," Madden explained, patiently re-iterating the national security/social conservistism/economic conservatism triad (the fabled "Reagan coalition") that are the core competencies of brand Romney. "I don't believe Mike Huckabee has positions that are going to appeal to voters in New Hampshire, Michigan and South Carolina." And as for the negative ads - against both Huckabee and John McCain - that seemed to bait an already energized...
...musical-parody troupe that wryly skewered pols from both sides of the aisle, Bill Strauss was a policy expert and adviser on serious matters of the Senate. Then at a Memorial Day party in 1981, a group of Beltway revelers broke into silly ad-lib ditties about the Reagan Administration, and the bipartisan Capitol Steps was born. Since 1984, when Strauss took the troupe professional, it has become a $3 million-a-year business, recording 29 albums and touring widely. Among its repertoire: My Momma Told Me: You Better Sleep Around (inspired by Monica Lewinsky); The Angina Monologues (Dick Cheney...
...Reagan coalition is in danger of splintering among economic, religious and national security conservatives - and there is no sign yet that anyone can emerge quickly to patch the pieces together. Tonight, McCain campaign officials were exalting Huckabee's win, because it takes a piece out of Romney as they all head to New Hampshire. "What had to happen tonight happened," said one McCain hand...
...years since Christian conservatives emerged from the cultural wilderness in the 1970s, presidential candidates have increasingly made religious faith a centerpiece of the U.S. political arena. From Ronald Reagan opening his 1980 presidential campaign by invoking John Winthrop's characterization of America as a chosen nation, a "shining city on a hill," to Bill Clinton's description of his 1992 Democratic convention acceptance speech as "the New Covenant" - a phrase drawn from the words of Jesus at the Last Supper - to George W. Bush's naming of Jesus as his favorite philosopher in a 1999 G.O.P. primary debate, public displays...