Bush May Be a Cowboy But Republicans Love That
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The thousands of Republicans in New York may not agree with President Bush on abortion rights or gay marriage but they know what they like about him -- and it's often the same things his critics hate.
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Sex could be the undoing of a family values Republican.
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Christian conservatives, traditionally a reliable Republican constituency, aren't necessarily a GOP gimme this time around. There is an undercurrent of concern that some evangelicals, unhappy that the GOP-led Congress and President Bush haven't paid more attention to gay marriage and other "values" issues, may stay home on Election Day or even vote Democratic.
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John McCain is a "true conservative," President Bush says, although the presumptive Republican presidential nominee may have to work harder to convince other conservatives that he is one of their own.
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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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Not many people foresaw the postwar difficulties the administration has endured in Iraq. Of the few who did, two stand out, both lions of the Republican Party.
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On Broadway, off Broadway, Republicans are streaming through the city, eager to renominate George W. Bush for president this week and re-elect him this fall.
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President Bush sought to unify the  Republican Party, but did not explicitly mention John McCain, who has been viewed with suspicion by the right.
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President Bush's conservative coattails, geography and campaigns crafted to take advantage of both helped Republicans to a four-seat gain in Senate elections this year.
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The Republican National Convention is officially President Bush's party, but fellow GOP candidates are not shy about using the days before the guest of honor's arrival to raise money for their own campaigns.
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It was not the most important question of last nightÃ¢ÂÂs Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire Ã¢ÂÂ but it sure was a telling one as the hopefuls headed for the hills when asked what they would do with George W. Bush if any of them get to the White House.
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One might expect Republican senators to cheer the prospect of a colleague becoming the party's presidential nominee.
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A freak tie result in the presidential election could mean the House of Representatives would choose the next president, a scenario that would favor Republican incumbent George W. Bush.
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The Republicans have a plank on just about everything. They've taken positions not only on disabled people and hunters, but specifically on disabled hunters. They found 80 different things to "applaud" in their platform, 17 to "hail" and a dozen to "commend."
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After controlling both houses of Congress for most of President Bush's time in office, the GOP's governing record has dismayed those who fantasized about what Newt Gingrich and his band of rebels might accomplish. The current crisis arrived with a sex scandal that muddied one of the GOP's few remaining patches of moral high ground. And if Republicans worried it would hurt their chances of keeping the House, they were right.
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Christian conservatives, whose lack  of enthusiasm for George W. Bush in 2000 worried Republicans,  could be the president's ace in the hole in his race for  re-election this time around.
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It may sound strange, after four years of George W. Bush as a candidate and then president, but Republicans say a main goal of their convention that opens Monday is to reintroduce him to the nation.