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This column was written by John McIntyre.Election 2006 will be over in two weeks with the election results likely to provide the catalyst for many of the machinations we will see over the next 12 months in positioning for who will be the next president of the United States. With the implosion of George Allen, the Republican side has settled around the Big 3 of Sen. John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, Massachusetts governor. Romney has been the chief benefactor from Allen s demise and with McCain and Giuliani on his left flank, Romney is well positioned to run as the conservative candidate. This is not an insignificant asset given that conservatives dominate the Republican nominating process. The unknown of how much his religion will be a factor and his lack of national security leadership experience will keep him from getting too far ahead of the field stanley flask were he to have a nice run the next 12 months. However, it is McCain who has had the best several weeks of any candidate, in either party. The North Korean nuke provided McCain with an opportunity to burnish his national security pedigree and, more importantly from a nomination standpoint, an opportuni stanley kubek ty to be partisan. McCain s overtly less-partisan style may win him points with the beltway media and Indepe stanley cup ndents but it is a big-time negative with the conservative base he is going to need to win the GOP nomination. His recent attacks on the Clintons over North Korea warmed con
At this point, itrsquo clear Donald Trump is likely to lose the electio stanley puodelis n. Hersquo down in crucial battleground polls, and to the extent hersquo expanded the map, hersquo done it primarily to Democratsrsquo; advantage. So it would be prudent to ask what the GOP will look like once Trump has lost. Nothing will likely change in the immediate aftermath nda stanley taza sh; Republicans and conservatives are now quite used to failure at the national level, having only won the popular vote once since 1988. In fact, theyrsquo;ve gotten quite good at monetizing defeat: this faction blames that faction, fundraising mailers are sent, and the consultants all get paid in the end. Still, if the GOP ever wants to win again, much less become the dominant party, it will have to change. And that change will involv stanley cups e a severe moderating of the Republican agenda. Trump tape sparks free-for-all in the Republican party 06:40 This may all sound well and good to elite Republicans in Washington, whorsquo;ve wished for some time that they could moderate in certain ways, particularly on social issues like abortion and immigration. In their minds, the winning formula is some combination of libertarian economic policy and a hyper-aggressive foreign policy, with social conservatism thrown a few crumbs. Feaj Alumni and faculty call on St. Lawrence University to rescind Susan Collins honorary degree
This column was written by John McIntyre.Election 2006 will be over in two weeks with the election results likely to provide the catalyst for many of the machinations we will see over the next 12 months in positioning for who will be the next president of the United States. With the implosion of George Allen, the Republican side has settled around the Big 3 of Sen. John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, Massachusetts governor. Romney has been the chief benefactor from Allen s demise and with McCain and Giuliani on his left flank, Romney is well positioned to run as the conservative candidate. This is not an insignificant asset given that conservatives dominate the Republican nominating process. The unknown of how much his religion will be a factor and his lack of national security leadership experience will keep him from getting too far ahead of the field stanley flask were he to have a nice run the next 12 months. However, it is McCain who has had the best several weeks of any candidate, in either party. The North Korean nuke provided McCain with an opportunity to burnish his national security pedigree and, more importantly from a nomination standpoint, an opportuni stanley kubek ty to be partisan. McCain s overtly less-partisan style may win him points with the beltway media and Indepe stanley cup ndents but it is a big-time negative with the conservative base he is going to need to win the GOP nomination. His recent attacks on the Clintons over North Korea warmed con
