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...loyal to Barry's right wing, purged some of the National Committee's best staff people on the ground-real or imagined-that they were not trustworthy. And on a loftier level, while the Republican Party has some outstanding and attractive potential presidential candidates among Governors (Romney, Scranton, et al.), a governorship no longer seems as strong a springboard to national office as it used to be. Increasingly, voters seem to want national experience and exposure in their national candidates...
Pennsylvania Republican William Scranton, midway in his four-year term, is in trouble with the newly Democratic house of representatives. Eying a $60 million state surplus, the Democrats are seeking a tax cut. Scranton is firmly opposed, insists that the money must be used to finance new aids to education and similar projects. The Governor's demands that the lawmakers act promptly on reapportionment or see the G.O.P.-dominated State Supreme Court act for them brought cries of political blackmail from the floor of the legislature. Scranton, who is ineligible to succeed himself, was in a fighting mood. Said...
...seemed ready for shedding. In an effort to save himself, he arranged a session with Michigan's Governor George Romney last week, pleaded for support in his cause. After the meeting, he said sadly: "I didn't get any encouragement." Later in the week, Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton declared flatly: "Whether he is a conservative or a liberal or a moderate or a right-handed fiddle player, the national chairman must step down, because that's the only way we can begin to say to Americans that we truly want to become a broad-based majority party...
...orthodoxy inevitably glosses over the split it depicts between "moderates" and "conservatives." Their terminology is misleading. If we look at the Republican Party we find three, not two, kinds of politicians competing for leadership and control. There are the Gubernatorial Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and Scranton (men like Senator Kuchel and Congressman Lindsay also belong in this group). Then there are the Congressional and legislative leaders like Everett Dirksen, Charlie Halleck, and Robert Taft Jr. and Sr. Finally there is the Goldwater group, including Barry himself, Senator Tower and a host of cold-eyed ideologues...
Even exemplars of the Gubernatorial group, like Rockefeller, Scranton, and Romney, have to count on voters who would prefer Congressional or Goldwater Republicans. And their legislative programs must to a large extent be tailored to the wishes of the rural, backward Republicans who dominate their legislatures. More significantly, Gubernatorial Republicans need the votes of Congressional and Goldwaterite delegates to win the Republican Presidential nomination...