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...long ago that conservatives believed that George Bush's presidency would usher in a political realignment that would last for decades. But as the right looks forward to the next election, something close to panic is setting in. Surveying the leading G.O.P. contenders for 2008, direct-mail guru Richard Viguerie pronounces "not a one of them is worthy of support from conservatives." Says Craig Shirley, a public relations executive who represents many conservative groups and who has written a book on the Reagan revolution: "There's anger, there's angst, there's dismay in the conservative movement." Some activists, Shirley...
...Baptist minister regarded as one of the nation's most successful Governors. "At this point, if there is a candidate out there that has a chance to come out of the weeds as the dark horse, it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was Governor Huckabee," says Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's policy arm. Huckabee says he senses that conservatives feel "a need to coalesce around a person whose record matches his rhetoric...
...that fact hides one other big political change since the November elections. Skepticism among Republicans about the President's thinking on Iraq has become reflexive. Over the past week, two Republican Senators, Richard Lugar of Indiana and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, indicated they were far from sold on the surge, and Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam veteran from Nebraska, called a surge "folly." A senior aide to a G.O.P. Senator told TIME that "requiring more troops without providing the goals or the message is a killer. It's a political killer...
...Richard Freirman, a parent of a CRLS junior and an original member of the principal search committee, said he was a "big fan" of Saheed. "He is firm without dominating the whole conversation, but he clearly knows the ropes as far as running the high school," said Freirman. "I think that what he has to deal with that is challenging is continuing the good work that's already started at the high school. I think it's going to be challenging to continue improvement across all levels...
...years and seven months ago, Ford and his wife, Betty, sat in the same cathedral for the funeral of the next Republican to succeed him in the White House, Ronald Reagan. Now, the tributes were pouring out for Ford, who became President after Richard Nixon's resignation and served from...