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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Republican stories: 373 news summaries

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Coleman Could Be Mulling Gubernatorial Bid

Former Senator asking donors to wait on endorsing other candidates

Jul 1, 09 4:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Norm Coleman has given up the fight for Minnesota’s US Senate seat, but he may be mulling a run for governor. Coleman has been calling his major donors, asking them “to hold off making any commitments to other candidates,” a University of Minnesota political scientist tells the... More »

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Republican • Norm Coleman • Minnesota • fundraiser • Al Franken • governor • fundraising

Rush: Blame Obama for AWOL Sanford

Gov bolted because country's 'going to hell in a handbasket'

Jun 26, 09 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh has a novel theory about why Mark Sanford left the US: He was sick of the way the country’s being run. The South Carolina governor's disappearance, it seems, was President Obama’s fault, the Huffington Post reports. “This is almost like: I don't give a damn!... More »

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entertainment • Democrats • Republican • talk radio • South Carolina • Rush Limbaugh • affair • infidelity • governor • political scandal • political criticism • Mark Sanford • President Obama • blame • Republican governor

ANALYSIS

 Twitchy GOP 
 Absorbs Yet 
 Another Scandal 

From Sanford to Ensign, Republican leaders are falling down

Jun 25, 09 5:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Sanford caused the GOP enough of a headache when he disappeared—but coming back to South Carolina only made it worse. The second Republican sex scandal in a week has left party leaders angry and exhausted, reports the New York Times, and has them wondering whether they can mount... More »

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Newt Gingrich • Republican • sex scandal • Republican Party • Bobby Jindal • John Ensign • Grover Norquist • political scandal • Sarah Palin • Mark Sanford • Election 2012

Nixon Asked for More 'Attractive Women' in GOP

New tapes: He thought abortions were OK in interracial pregnancies

Jun 23, 09 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Richard Nixon felt the Republican Party needed more “attractive women,” newly released Oval Office tapes reveal. In a phone conversation with George HW Bush (then Republican National Committee chairman) Nixon describes seeing two “very attractive women” in the South Carolina legislature, the Los Angeles Times reports. “... More »

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abortion • race • Republican • women • GOP • rape • Richard Nixon • George HW Bush • Sarah Palin

(Newser) - John Ensign, a Republican senator from Nevada said to be considering a presidential run in 2012, admitted today that he had an extramarital affair with a campaign staffer, reports Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post. "It's absolutely the worst thing I've ever done in my life," he said... More »

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Republican • Senate • GOP • Nevada • Senate GOP • John Ensign • scandal • senator • US Senate • extramarital affair

 Prima Donna 
 Palin Deigns 
 to Appear at 
 GOP Event 

She stoops to conquer as Gingrich gets top billing at dinner

Jun 9, 09 3:59 AM CDT
(AP) - Sarah Palin appeared at a Republican fundraiser in Washington last night, ending a will-she-or-won't-she mystery that overshadowed the event and frustrated the GOP, AP reports. Palin, who was initially slated to headline the annual Senate-House dinner, left organizers hanging as late as yesterday afternoon after she was told she wouldn't... More »

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Newt Gingrich • Republican • Republican Party • fundraiser • Sarah Palin

Palin Tours Feminist Landmarks

Media scarce as Alaska gov. launches low-key visit to lower 48

Jun 6, 09 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - There were few reporters to be seen as Sarah Palin visited some landmarks of early feminism in upstate New York yesterday, Politico reports. The Alaska governor is at the start of a low-key out-of-state trip with no mass rallies or major addresses planned. Most of the events she plans to... More »

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Alaska • Republican • feminism • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin

(Newser) - Newt Gingrich today backed off his remark that Sonia Sotomayor is a “Latina woman racist,” the Boston Globe reports. When he heard the Supreme Court nominee’s now-infamous “wise Latina” soundbite, “my initial reaction was strong and direct,” he wrote in his blog today on... More »

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Newt Gingrich • Republican • Jeff Sessions • racist • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor • Latina

ANALYSIS

Sotomayor Will Likely Get Some GOP Votes

Limbaugh, Gingrich posturing belies thin Senate opposition

Jun 1, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite loud opposition from the likes of Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh, many Republican senators may vote for Sonia Sotomayor, the New York Times reports. Strategists on both sides suspect that at least a third of the upper house’s 40 Republicans will back the Supreme Court nominee, including the... More »

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Newt Gingrich • Republican • Rush Limbaugh • Senate Republicans • Senate confirmation hearings • confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor

OPINION

 Steele: GOP Is on 
 Rebound. Really. 

If party looks forward, rather than back, it will see a bright future

May 19, 09 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sure, we’ve fallen on hard times, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele writes in Politico. But, he insists, the GOP is straightening its priorities out. “The Republican Party will be forward-looking—it is time to stop looking backward,” Steele writes. Republicans will stand against “the most... More »

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Republican • RNC • Ronald Reagan • George W. Bush • President Obama • Michael Steele • Republican opposition

 Obama Courts 
 GOP Moderates, 
 but Quietly 

President seeks support on health care

May 18, 09 10:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama would love to have a few Republicans in his corner on health care, but he’s keeping courting efforts low-key, Politico reports. Last week, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel invited a dozen moderate House Republicans to a casual White House meeting, and the president stopped by to chat.... More »

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health care • Republican • White House • Democrat • Rahm Emanuel • John Boehner • moderate • President Obama • Rep. Mike Castle

OPINION

Bless You,
Dick Cheney

Bill Kristol gives
'Darth Vader' the
Most Valuable Republican award

May 16, 09 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Republicans should be shouting Dick Cheney’s name from the rafters, writes William Kristol in the Weekly Standard. While the rest of the party sat passively by as Obama attacked them on torture, “Dick Cheney—Darth Vader himself, Mr. Unpopularity … stepped onto the field.” Thanks to... More »

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Dick Cheney • torture • Republican • William Kristol

(Newser) - Barack Obama will name Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., an up-and-coming Republican star, as his ambassador to China this morning, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Huntsman will resign as governor to take the post. The popular Mormon speaks Mandarin Chinese, has an adopted Chinese daughter, along with six other children,... More »

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China • Barack Obama • Republican • Utah • Jon Huntsman • ambassador

 Crist to Kick Off Senate Run 


May 11, 09 7:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is, indeed, planning to run for the Senate in 2010, the Miami Herald reports, and will announce his candidacy at a “low key” event tomorrow in Tallahassee. “He loves being governor,” says his former chief-of-staff, “but he also realizes that Florida’... More »

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Florida • Republican • Senate • Charlie Crist • governor

OPINION

Fey's Inner Conservative Gets Out in 30 Rock's Drift Right

Show often presents conservative viewpoint as inevitable

May 7, 09 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - 30 Rock will wrap its third season next week, with a ratings boost propelled by creator Tina Fey’s notorious Saturday Night Live impersonations of Sarah Palin. Yet for a show that owes some of its success to the takedown of a Republican politician, 30 Rock often sides with its... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Barack Obama • Republican • Alec Baldwin • conservative • Tina Fey • Tracy Morgan • 30 Rock • liberal • Sarah Palin

Specter Enjoys 20-Point Lead Over Toomey

But Tom Ridge would be a stiffer challenge if he nabbed GOP nom

May 4, 09 11:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Arlen Specter beat Pat Toomey 53% to 33% in a Quinnipiac poll of Pennsylvanians’ preferred candidate for US senator. But against Tom Ridge, who may become the Republican candidate, Specter's lead grows more precarious—voters prefer Specter to Ridge by a margin of 46% to 43%, the Quinnipiac poll showed.... More »

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Republican • Senate • Arlen Specter • Pennsylvania • Democrat • governor • Quinnipiac University • Tom Ridge • Pat Toomey

NC Rep Calls Shepard Murder a 'Hoax'

Republican cops to 'poor choice of words' in House debate

Apr 30, 09 12:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - A North Carolina congresswoman is backtracking after saying during a House debate that the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard was a “hoax” used by gay-rights activists, WTVD-TV of Raleigh-Durham reports. Arguing against a new hate-crimes bill, Republican Virginia Foxx said the highly publicized killing of Shepard—whose mother was... More »

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Congress • gay rights • Republican • robbery • House of Representatives • homosexuality • homosexual • Matthew Shepard • Virginia Foxx

Republicans Play Blame Game Over Specter

Steele, Club for Growth in crosshairs

Apr 30, 09 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Arlen Specter’s departure has set off a wave of finger pointing within the Republican Party, Politico reports. Some blame Specter for not having the ideological purity to stick with the party. But others single out various Republicans they claim helped push Specter out the door, from Michael Steele, who... More »

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Republican • Arlen Specter • Republican Party • Pat Toomey • Club for Growth

right OPINION roundup

 After 100 
 Days, Obama 
 Remains Elusive 

Depending who you ask, Obama is 'elusive,' 'arrogant,' or 'preening'

Apr 29, 09 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Whoever the man in the Oval Office really is, he's not a traditional liberal, writes Gerald Seib in the Wall Street Journal. Rather than aiming to bolster government programs, President  Obama "seems to see government as the way to prompt the changes he wants in the economy or society.... More »

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Barack Obama • Republican • conservative • opinion • Obama administration • President Obama • 100 days

ANALYSIS

Defector Specter Just Playing to Pa. Primary Politics

Shrewd senator had no future as a Republican

Apr 28, 09 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Why did Arlen Specter defect? It’s tempting to paint Specter as part of a post-Obama ideological realignment, but there’s a much more concrete explanation, Eric Kleefeld writes for Talking Points Memo: reelection. Pennsylvania is a closed-primary state, and between 150,000 and 200,000 registered Republicans switched parties... More »

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Barack Obama • Republican • GOP • Arlen Specter • Democrat • defection • electability • President Obama

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