nytimes.com - 2/27/2009
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At the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservatives, few speakers left the stage without a fair amount of hand-wringing. >
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A detour on the comeback trail
Political Animal —
... day just fine, thank you very much, are content to stay there, even as the country moves forward. What was the message on CPAC's first day? Government is still the enemy; Iran still wants to kill us; it's still a conservative country; tax cuts will still solve every problem; Democrats are still radicals; the media is still victimizing the right; and Republicans can still win if they shift from being a conservative party to an extremely conservative party. Attendees could attend a panel discussion on, "Al Franken and Acorn: How Liberals are Destroying the ...
Gingrich Links Obama and Bush Fiscal Policies
The Caucus —
If there were such a thing as a state of the conservative movement address, Newt Gingrich seemed to deliver it on Friday. At a gathering of thousands of the conservative faithful in Washington, Mr. Gingrich, the former House Speaker and leader of a 1994 Republican resurgence in Congress, spent several minutes wading through a raucous crowd on his way to the stage. Appropriately, the soundtrack for his entrance was the Reagan-era hit, “ ...
The Ghost of John McCain at CPAC
The Caucus —
Had Senator John McCain been walking the halls of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington this week, he might have winced to hear his name taken in vain — over and over again. But Mr. McCain wasn’t anywhere to be found. In fact, he wasn’t even invited. Never a darling of the conservative movement, Mr. McCain ...
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