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Coburn's opponent, Democratic Congressman Brad Carson, couldn't pull the same kind of weight, and in fact didn't dare try: most Democrats with a national reputation are radioactive in Oklahoma. Despite Carson's declared support for gun rights, tax cuts, the Iraq war and a constitutional ban on gay marriage, Coburn managed to paint him as a liberal. Once he gets to Washington, Coburn may apply the same label to some of his fellow Republicans: budget deficits drive him crazy, a lonely cause in a Congress that these days winks at trillions in red ink. Given that Coburn...
Still, much of DeMint's campaign platform--in favor of tax cuts, tort reform and partial privatization of Social Security--is by-the-book Republicanism. To pick up a Senate seat, the G.O.P. will tolerate a little restlessness in the ranks...
...goblin Vice President. And he faced an opponent with a long record of public service, a shiny record from a war Bush had avoided and a Democratic base suffused with a cold and implacable hatred, a group that had never been so united--not over the war, not over tax policy or job losses or health care but simply in the purpose of bringing this presidency it so despised...
...could hold McCain back. He'll be 72 in 2008, three years older than Ronald Reagan was when he became the oldest elected President. The policy positions that make McCain popular with independents would draw fire from rivals within the G.O.P. He has opposed some of President Bush's tax cuts, making him an apostate to the party's tax-cutting faithful. "We don't like McCain at all," says Stephen Moore of the Club for Growth. McCain in 2000 antagonized social conservatives when he likened religious broadcasters Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell to Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton...
Like McCain, Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, another 2008 prospect, has a maverick streak, illustrated by his willingness to chide the Bush Administration for being "cavalier" in dealing with allies. But Hagel could be more acceptable to conservatives than McCain. He backed all of Bush's tax cuts and helped lead the Senate opposition to the Kyoto global-warming treaty...