Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those turnabouts that create strange political bedfellows, the Senate minority leader and other Republicans have begun meeting on a regular basis with the President. Snubbed by many Democrats, Carter needs all the support he can get in Congress and thus welcomes the Republican advice. The Republicans, on the other hand, are worried that Carter may continue to stumble so badly that he will be denied the nomination. The G.O.P. leaders do not want this to happen because they figure Carter would be the easiest candidate to beat...
Conservatives who succeeded in nominating Senator Barry Goldwater for President 15 years ago sought power through control of the Republican Party. In the mid-'70s, there was a feeble effort to unite diverse factions into a national conservative party. Today's New Right has different priorities. It stresses 1) the creation of coalitions among special interest groups, 2) support or opposition on specific legislation and 3) concentration on Senate and House seats that can be won. Says William Rusher, publisher of National Review and an admiring expert on the movement: "These are the first conservative groups that really...
Dolan got into politics as a Republican volunteer in his native state of Connecticut and at 21 was a paid organizer in the 1972 Nixon campaign. "I'm ashamed to admit that now," he says. In 1976, as a protest gesture against the major parties, he voted for the Libertarians...
Says he: "The Republican Party is a fraud...
...feeling returned by many in the Republican Establishment-the party is the tude was responsible for the void. In fact, the silo was part of the obsolescent Titan system, which has been mostly replaced by Minuteman missiles. A mailing prepared for N.C.P.A.C. by Viguerie calls Church "the radical... who singlehanded has presided over the destruction of the FBI and the CIA." Church protests that his enemies are using "the big-lie technique...