Word: thursday
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...campaign failed from the beginning, losing out of the gate in Iowa to a populist upstart Mike Huckabee, then losing in New Hampshire and South Carolina to a war hero, John McCain, who had been written off as an also-ran months earlier. More disappointing results followed, and on Thursday, Romney announced that he would...
...battle-scarred warrior, John McCain has the smile of a peacemaker. So he knew what do to when the boos and jeers finally came Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. He flashed his teeth and held up his palms, as if he was basking in the glow of a wood fire. Okay, he was saying to the suddenly hostile crowd, let me have it. Tell me how you really feel...
...false conservative who supports campaign finance reform, global warming regulations and other right-wing heresies. This means that unlike other presumptive nominees in his situation, McCain must tack to the right before he moves to the center for the general election. That fact came into stark relief Thursday night when word leaked that James Dobson, the evangelical leader, had endorsed Mike Huckabee, who dramatically trails McCain in the delegate race but has proven to have a strong conservative following, especially in the South...
...address to the conservative conference was key to McCain's effort, especially since he shunned the gathering a year ago, apparently fearful of receiving a less welcoming reception than his arch-rival Mitt Romney. But on Thursday, two days after his disappointing showing on Super Tuesday, Romney returned to CPAC to bow out of the presidential race, clearing the way for McCain to begin a sort of dating ritual with the movement he has never followed step for step. He faces an uphill battle, but it is one he can overcome...
...That effort tops the agenda at Thursday's meeting of NATO defense ministers in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, just as it will at a major summit of NATO heads of government in Bucharest in April. Some U.S. officials are billing that meeting as a make-or-break effort for the future not just of the Afghanistan operation but of the Atlantic Alliance...