http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=50ca3fdc-8a80-4065-9230-6b17488b88c2GOP hopefuls try to redefine their party
Republicans more divided than they have been since Watergate forced Richard Nixon to resign
Sheldon Alberts
CanWest News Service
Saturday, May 19, 2007
COLUMBIA, S.C. - It is approaching midnight in a cramped and stuffy "spin room" on the campus of the University of South Carolina, where 10 Republicans who want to be the next president of the United States are scrambling to find the nearest microphone.
With harried press aides acting as human shields, the three early favourites -- Senator John McCain, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney -- push through a gauntlet of reporters and head straight for the live cameras of Fox News Channel.
"We'd better be honest with Americans about the failures of the past," says Mike Huckabee, a Baptist preacher and former governor of Arkansas. With his crooked grin and aw-shucks demeanour, Huckabee evokes more Gomer Pyle than Ronald Reagan.
But like the nine other White House hopefuls here for an early debate among GOP candidates, Huckabee believes he's best suited to a task no less daunting than the one Reagan pulled off in 1980 -- saving the soul of the Republican party. Six months removed from their worst electoral defeat in 15 years, and five years into a war that has claimed the lives of 3,400 American troops, U.S. Republicans are more divided than they have been since Richard Nixon was forced from office over the Watergate scandal back in 1974.
What the party is enduring is not so much an existentialist struggle as an identity crisis.
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and the freepies' take on it all
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836355/postsTo: Ultra Sonic 007
Giuliani, beloved in the party for his leadership in New York after 9/11, is leading the pack in early polls....
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Well, just goes to prove that the “party” has gone socialist. Guliani is NOT a conservative, he is very much a liberal. And “most” Repubs are polling for him??? Or, maybe these pollsters are only interviewing LIBERAL DEMOCRATS??
The party, by logical deduction, is not conservative in the majority....(make sense)??
4 posted on 05/19/2007 10:40:32 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
"...the three TWO early favourites -- Senator John McCain, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney."
I think we can scratch Ted Kennedy's amnesty buddy.
5 posted on 05/19/2007 10:41:18 AM PDT by Baynative (Don't shake hands with Sheryl Crow.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
Just something to keep in mind: The Edmonton Journal is Edmonton’s liberal/Liberal paper.
6 posted on 05/19/2007 10:42:34 AM PDT by Albertafriend
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
But some political analysts doubt Thompson is the answer to current Republican troubles. While he has strong appeal to the Republican base, particularly in the U.S. South and Great Plains, he could struggle to appeal to moderates in the Midwest and Northeast, regions key to the White House in 2008.
LMAO!!!
Yep, a Canadian's point of view. What a weak attempt to try to paint a downside to Thompson.
7 posted on 05/19/2007 10:51:50 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Albertafriend; Lancey Howard
I figured. Maybe I should have added “A Canadian’s Perspective” to the title.
8 posted on 05/19/2007 10:58:22 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (Why vote for Duncan Hunter in 2008? Look at my profile.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
Could someone please explain to me what wonderful, heroic things Guiliani did after 911, other than his job?
10 posted on 05/19/2007 12:14:01 PM PDT by almcbean
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To: Baynative
Good point. We have 3 now, perhaps if The Huck gets up to speed, 4. I am concerned that the Senate GOPers are killing themselves with this Kennedy Immigration Bill. And the House, well they need 17 seats to regain control of the House and many more to actually legislate. This is a tough road to hoe since so many nutters are willing to leave the GOP and join some worthless Third Party which only gets Hil and the Dems elected ala Perot.
11 posted on 05/19/2007 12:22:46 PM PDT by phillyfanatic
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Good point. We have 3 now, perhaps if The Huck gets up to speed, 4. I am concerned that the Senate GOPers are killing themselves with this Kennedy Immigration Bill.
Do you mean Huckabee? If your worried about immigration, he's the last one you need. He took Tax $ and built a Mexican consulate in Little rock, plus gave in state tuition to illegals, and more!
12 posted on 05/19/2007 1:01:12 PM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)