Gay Republicans withdraw support from conservative Bush
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A key group of gay Republicans said it had withdrawn support from US President George W. Bush in November's election and vowed instead to work to defeat the party's &quot;radical right.&quot;
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Republicans endorsed an uncompromising stand against gay marriage Wednesday while struggling to accommodate the views of activists who declared that such a hard line could cost the GOP the election.
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Republicans concluded work on Thursday on a party platform that backs proposed constitutional amendments banning gay marriage and abortion and vigorously defends President Bush's conduct of the war in Iraq.
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US Vice President Dick Cheney has come under fire from some conservative groups for publicly outlining his position on gay marriage -- a stance which differs markedly from that of President George W. Bush.
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Leaders of the largest group for gay men and lesbians in the Republican Party voted overwhelmingly against endorsing President Bush for re-election because he favors a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, The New York Times said on Wednesday.
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For months, President Bush has been courting his core conservative supporters. Now, in a New York minute, he's shifting his focus to moderates, independents and Democrats not entirely sold on John Kerry. He wants to be known as the "compassionate conservative" again.
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Republicans who are standing up to Bush range from conservatives to moderates.
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Conservative voters are feeling glum about the Republican Presidential frontrunners. What they really should be lamenting is the collapse of their pet issue: national security
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Leaders of the largest group for gay  men and lesbians in the Republican Party voted overwhelmingly  against endorsing President Bush for re-election because he  favors a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage,  The New York Times said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORKâAnti-gay groups are furious over Vice President Dick Cheney&#39;s seeming dismissal of a federal ban on gay marriage, especially because President Bush himself has gone on record supporting such a ban.
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WASHINGTON - The House emphatically rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes advanced by Republican leaders in the run-up to Election Day.    The vote was 227-186, 49 votes shy of the two-thirds needed for approval of an amendment that President Bush backed but the Senate had previously scuttled...
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Conservative Republicans who pushed anti-evolution standards back into Kansas schools last year have lost control of the state Board of Education once again.
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President Bush's support for a constitutional amendment against gay marriage delighted many conservatives but alienated a smaller but potentially important voting bloc in a tight election.
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With Mitt Romney out of the Republican nomination race, John McCain goes all out to stress his conservative credentials and win support from his party's right flank
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American gays, branded sinners by the Christian right, are waging an all-out battle to eject President George W. Bush from power in the November 2 poll.
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Republicans who were once cozy with President Bush are distancing themselves from both the president and their party in campaign ads.
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Mitt Romney, who sought to position himself as the true conservative choice for the Republican nomination, announced Thursday that he had ended his campaign.