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Moderate Republicans

Reform...at What Cost?

Susan Bevan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moderate Republicans, Moderates, Republican-Majority-for-Choice, Abortion Rights, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Stupak Amendment, Anti-Abortion, U.S. House of Representatives, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Republican Party, Republicans, Politics News
Susan Bevan

Like it or not, abortion is a legal medical procedure and a decision that has to be left to doctors and families. Why are women being singled out and denied coverage, even through private plans?

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Misfits: Eight Politicians Who Should Just Switch Parties

Politics Daily | Jill Lawrence | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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RINOs and conservadems are cutting quite a swath these days -- making demands, frustrating their colleagues, wielding clout and even influencing elect...

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How Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers Are Blowing Up the GOP

Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dick Armey, Teabaggers, Ronald Reagan, Bill Owens, Charlie Crist, Palin, Mark Schauer, Mark Kirk, Rnc, Tea Partiers, Dede Scozzafava, Tim Walberg, Gun Rights, Tea Party, Minutemen, Wayne Gilchrest, Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee, Rush Limbaugh, Ny-23, Doug Hoffman, Ritght to Life, Barack Obama, Heather Wilson, Moderate Republicans, Carly Fiorina, Sarah Palin, Michael Steele, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Club for Growth, Tim Pawlenty, Glenn Beck, Republicans, Pat Toomey, Joe Schwarz, Chris Chocola, Politics News
Susan J. Demas

When extremists are a (vocal) minority, reasonable Republicans and independents come out of the woodwork. And the spoils go to the Democrats, who look comparatively sane.

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"Informed Sources": What Really Happened When Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin Got Into Upstate New York Politics

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al D'Amato, Congress, Rush Limbaugh, David Paterson, Senate Races, Democratic Party, New York, Caroline Kennedy, Moderate Republicans, Albany, Andrew Cuomo, Senate, Conservatives, Moderates, George Pataki, Elliot Spitzer, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Jfk, Kirsten Gillibrand, Republican Party, Ny Governor, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

The latest tempest involved New York's 23rd Congressional district, where the Republican candidate was forced out of the race because of her positions on gay and abortion rights.

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Jason Linkins

Michael Steele Flip-Flops On Moderate Republicans [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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Remember Election Night 2009? The big takeaway from the 23rd District of New York -- where Democrat Bill Owens prevailed as the first Democrat to win...

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Are Moderates No Longer Welcome In The Republican Party?

AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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ALBANY, N.Y. — In a Republican Party struggling to find its identity, the surprise withdrawal of the chosen GOP candidate for a New York congres...

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Susan Collins: Fellow Republican Senator Backstabbed Me

US News and World Report | Katherine Skiba | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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When Maine's two U.S. senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, broke ranks with all but one other Republican and voted "Yes" on President Barack Oba...

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How the Right Left the Center; or Arlen Specter and the Silent Majority Revisited

Daniel Frick | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moderate Republicans, Arlen Specter, National Republican Senate Committee, Michael Gerson, Rush Limbaugh, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama Polls, Rick Perry, Politics News
Daniel Frick

Nixon understood that the key to moving the country rightward and constructing and maintaining a Republican majority was making sure he held on to the political center.

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Republicans Fire Strategist for Telling Them How to Win

Susan J. Demas | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Arlen Specter, Gop, Proposal 2, Ronald Reagan, Jeff Timmer, Dave Doyle, Barack Obama, Jennifer Granholm, Gay Rights, Republicans, Mike Bishop, Dennis Darnoi, GOP Strategist, Moderate Republicans, Arlen Specter Republicans, Michigan, John Engler, Tax Increases, Politics News
Susan J. Demas

What happens when a Republican strategist tries to figure out why the party keeps hemorrhaging votes? Well, in Michigan, he loses his job.

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Rahm Invites Moderate Republicans To White House For Private Meeting

CQ | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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The president's top aide, Rahm Emanuel, has invited a group of moderate Republicans to a private White House meeting Tuesday amid a Democratic push to...

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Republicans Fiddle with Abortion While America Burns

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

The Republican strategy sounds like the demon child of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's five-year plans: a criminal intolerance of social differences combined with an outrageously failed economic policy.

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An Obama Victory Is a Lesson for McCain

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Taxes, Michelle Obama, Cindy Mccain Style, Obama, John McCain Campaign, Health, Voting, Moderate Republicans, McCain Maverick, Barack Obama Michelle Obama, Maverick, Media, Cindy McCain, Cindy McCain John McCain, Mainstream Republicans, Home News
Miles J. Zaremski

While McCain may bill himself as a maverick, he allowed himself to be molded, and then morphed into, a follower of what mainstream Republicans in his campaign wanted him to become for this general election.

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Moderate Republicans Unhappy With Party's New Principles

Chuck Lasker | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home

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Chuck Lasker

The Republican Party is a ghost of its original self. It's no wonder reasonable, tolerant, progressive Republicans are jumping ship, while new recruits to the Party are diminishing.

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