Republicans fight over conservative credentials
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It's not enough for U.S. Republican presidential candidates to be conservatives. They've got to be bigger and better conservatives to win the hearts of right-wing America.
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The spectacular rise of Baptist preacher and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, now a lead contender for the Republican presidential nomination, runs counter to the wishes of the party's conservative elite.
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Core conservative Republicans are trapped between denial and grudging acceptance over the rise of John McCain, as the party's presumptive 2008 presidential standard bearer.
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Religious and cultural conservatives, a political force skeptical of the leading Republican presidential candidates, are caught in a tug of war between pragmatism and ideology.
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Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has helped win yet another Republican platform opposed to abortion, but the GOP's internal debate over the issue hasn't ended.
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The eight Republican candidates for the 2008 presidential nomination have staged a series of long-distance exchanges over who among them deserves support from the partyÃ¢ÂÂs crucial conservative constituency. And a debate in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday night allowed them to get in each othersÃ¢ÂÂ faces over this crucial issue of political positioning.
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The Republican Party has lined up to beat back a conservative primary challenge to the most liberal Republican in the Senate, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.
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Republican presidential hopefuls show little party unity over the immigration bill in the Senate.
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Front-runners Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney were forced to defend their conservative credentials by their campaign rivals Sunday night in the sharpest debate so far of the Republican presidential campaign.
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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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John McCain heads into Tuesday's Florida primary facing resistance from not only his fellow candidates, but also from the leaders of conservative talk radio, who some suggest have put their reputations on the line, as well.
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With a difficult war debate looming and presidential vetoes for a host of popular legislation threatened, moderate Republicans in Congress are facing a tough choice: Stand by President Bush or run for their political lives.
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National Republicans are taking the unusual step of picking sides in a competitive Arizona congressional primary, bypassing an anti-immigration conservative to promote a candidate the party contends could win in November.
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Republican front-runners Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney defended their conservative credentials in the face of pointed attacks from their rivals Sunday night in the most aggressive debate to date of the race for the White House.
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An embattled Senate incumbent in Rhode Island and an open House seat in Arizona gave Republican primary voters a choice Tuesday between moderates and conservatives, as both parties watched the races with eyes on the larger fight for control of Congress.
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A conservative backlash to the massive street demonstrations over immigration is aggravating Republican leaders&#039; carefully orchestrated plans to renew the landmark Voting Rights Act before the fall elections.
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Conservative opponents of Sen. Arlen Specter's bid to become Senate Judiciary Committee chairman are flooding Republican committee members with calls demanding he be passed over.