GOP Sharpens Attacks As Convention Opens
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NEW YORK - Sen. John McCain said Monday it was fair game to criticize Democrat John Kerry's anti-war protests three decades ago, firing an opening salvo as Republicans sought to use their national convention to portray President Bush as a strong wartime leader...
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To get their foot in the door in Iowa and other leadoff states early, 2008 Republican presidential hopefuls are already meeting with national convention delegates.
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NEW YORK - Nearly three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Republicans hold their national convention here this week aiming to show President Bush as a war president with determination and
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Republicans who are standing up to Bush range from conservatives to moderates.
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Four speeches, and the reaction of the activists gathered here for the Florida Republican Partyâs biggest annual event, provided a distillation of the strengths of the leading candidates, as well as their weaknesses.
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New York -- Speaking from a heavily fortified convention hall 3 miles from the barren gap where the World Trade Center towers once stood, the leaders of the Republican Party made no attempt to sidestep the raw emotions that linger from the worst attack in
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John Kerryâs campaign accused Republicans of trying to frighten voters about a terrorist attack being more likely if the Democrat is elected.
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NEW YORK -- In an election year with a tight, fiercely partisan presidential race, skeptics might wonder why the GOP is having its convention, which starts today, in New York City.
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John McCain and Rudolph Giuliani  kicked off the Republican convention on Monday with an  impassioned tribute to President Bush's wartime leadership and  said his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks proved his  strength as commander in chief.
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NEW YORK Republicans gathered here Sunday for a nominating convention meant to emphasize the moderate side of President George W. Bush&#39;s Republican Party even while using this city&#39;s Sept.
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NEW YORK--Republicans marshaled their forces to bolster US President George W. Bush&#39;s image as a strong leader in treacherous times as they open their national convention in the city that felt the brunt of the worst terrorist attacks in US history.
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Speakers at this week&#39;s Republican convention have relentlessly attacked John Kerry for statements he has made and votes he has taken in his long political career
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NEW YORK - Republicans belittled Democratic Sen. John Kerry as a shift-in-the-wind campaigner unworthy of the White House on Monday at the opening of their national convention, lavishing praise on President Bush as a steady, decisive leader in an age of terrorism...
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The head of the Republican Party accused Democrats of being willing to surrender the tools necessary to combat terrorism as the GOP tries to capitalize on its national security advantage in a tough election year.
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The Republican National Convention, which opens Monday at Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan, is being bankrolled and feted to an extraordinary degree by the financial services behemoths that are concentrated at the island's southern tip.
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It's party time for trade associations, companies and interest groups at the GOP convention in New York, and each is trying to outdo the next in gimmicks to lure in movers and shakers.
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The race to the White House will pick up speed on Monday as the Republican Party opens its convention and moves towards George W. Bush accepting the party&#39;s nomination.