Bearhug Politics: Careful Steps to a New Bush-McCain Alliance
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George W. Bush and John McCain's bearhug and smooch on the campaign trail last week was one of the odder embraces in politics in a long while.
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John McCain's hold on the Republican nomination  tightens with former rival's backing
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Presidential candidates cite intent to improve US stature, but retooling policies is complicated.
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Republican front-runner John McCain is trying to gain his party's presidential nomination by convincing conservatives he is one of them, without hurting support from moderate voters who have propelled his candidacy.
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Likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain faces a tough decision once he secures his party's nod: what role will the unpopular President George W. Bush play in his White House bid.
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President Bush sought to smooth over differences with Sen. John McCain on Thursday by promising to take legal action to stop political ads by outside groups, including those attacking the war record of Bush's Democratic presidential rival, John Kerry.
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Senator John McCain wants to maintain his role as an independent-minded candidate, but at the same time he must mend the rifts within his own party.
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US Senator John McCain, a leading member of the Republican Party, said he prefers not to be a part of President George W. Bush's new administration, though he helped Bush campaign for re-election.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Former President George H.W. Bush endorsed Republican presidential candidate John McCain today, saying he is best prepared to succeed his son and has the ``right values and experience to guide our nation forward.''
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Former President Bush today endorsed Sen. John McCain's presidential bid, saying, "No one is better prepared to lead our nation at these trying times than Senator John McCain."
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John McCain picked up former President George H.W. Bush's support on Monday, a critical blessing by a pillar of the Republican establishment whose members aren't completely sold on the party's next standard-bearer.
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Republican John McCain is trying to ease long-standing distrust among the party's powerful conservatives. It will be a slow process.
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Too often, the consequence of a tight presidential race is the sacrifice of principle to the win-at-all-costs ethos. It should thus come as no surprise that the Bush administration is once again jettisoning prudent trade policy for political calculation.
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Both parties have similar kinds of candidates. Meet the Charismatic, the Practicals, and the Base-Wooers.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush said Republican presidential candidate John McCain is ``absolutely'' a ``true conservative,'' and that the Arizona senator's principles are ``sound and solid.''
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Republican maverick John McCain campaigns with President Bush. He's good friends with Democrat John Kerry. And, in an unusual twist, he's shown up in campaign advertisements for both.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- As Sen. John McCain stages a resurrection in New Hampshire, his loyalists here say they can feel it in the air: the spirit of early 2000, when the Arizona Republican rode a raucous insurgency to trounce his party's establishment prince, George W. Bush, in the first-in-the-nation...