Republican Party

...winner has been sabotaged by a primary contest's leftover wounds is remarkably few. The fear among some Republican pros now is that as the GOP base has shrunk and become more monolithically conservative, ideological purity may replace broad...

In this article: Sarah Palin, Ronald Reagan, Jerry Ford, George W. Bush, Robert A. Taft, George H.W. Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, New Hampshire, and Jimmy Carter

...(AP) - Thrilled with twin victories this month, Republican governors are looking to lead a party-wide resurgence in 2010 and shape the GOP for years to come. Republicans boast of a strong crop of gubernatorial candidates who could be future...

In this article: Haley Barbour, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio, and Ronald Reagan

...cancer, which he has since beaten. He also withdrew from the presidential race a year ago, lacking support for the GOP nomination. A third Republican adviser said Giuliani is expected to give Rick Lazio, the only announced Republican in the...

In this article: Rudy Giuliani, Andrew Cuomo, U.S. Senate, Rick Lazio, Marist College, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Kirsten Gillibrand

...- Republican Sen. Tom Coburn is backing off his threat to require that the Senate read the 2,074-page health care bill because some GOP colleagues aren't supporting the effort. The Oklahoma lawmaker said there's uncertainty about whether...

In this article: Tom Coburn, GOP, Washington, Oklahoma, and Associated Press

...conference, says that's not a concern. He says New Jersey's Christie is moderate by national GOP standards, but he still got 94 percent of the total Republican vote, according to exit polls. As for Virginia, exit polls there showed that...

In this article: Chris Christie, Haley Barbour, Barack Obama, New Jersey, and Virginia

...they deeply care about and feel that they and their physicians need some discretion. Bob Blendon, Harvard School Of Public Health The GOP has seized on the uproar over the revised recommendations for breast cancer screening, forcing the...

In this article: Breast cancer, Jean Schmidt, GOP, Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, and Medicare

If Republicans believe Democrats would be better off politically if the health care bill fails, they ask, why have members of the GOP worked so hard to defeat it? White House officials believe that, if a bill passes, the political...

In this article: Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, White House, GOP, On the merits, and Beau Biden

...worship the Bible and the Second Amendment but who have little tolerance for diversity? The idea that the GOP is in trouble because it hasn't done enough of this kind of pandering seems like a brain-dead take on the whole issue to me. What am...

In this article: Barack Obama, Reihan Salam, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, and Mark Levin