Bush Confounds Traditional Republican Strategy
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Richard Nixon once said the key for Republicans to win the White House was to run as a conservative in the party's nominating primaries and move to the center in the presidential election.
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President George W. Bush went to the   U.S. Capitol on Thursday to prod fellow Republicans to back his   plans to track and try terrorism suspects, but some pushed   ahead with a competing measure the White House opposes.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - For the third time in less   than a year and two months before crucial U.S. elections,   President George W. Bush is launching a new campaign to counter   opposition to the Iraq war with a series of speeches he insists   are not political.
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While outlining an ambitious and aggressive agenda for his second term yesterday, President Bush didn&#39;t provide new detail that would help bring more definition to the generally hazy plans that he framed during his campaign.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush, undertaking a heavy campaign schedule in key states in the run-up to the Republican National Convention, acknowledges a "miscalculation" about what the United States would encounter in post-war Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.    In an interview with The New York Times, Bush said for the first time that he made a "miscalculation of what the conditions would be" after U.S...
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President Bush sought to enter the campaign&#39;s final week with voter attention focused on the war on terrorism - but the news out of Iraq in recent days was not what he had in mind.
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President Bush said critics of his Iraq policies are advocating a "cut and run" strategy that would draw terrorists to American soil.
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President Bush delivered a scathing critique of Senator John Kerry's stands on national security and the economy.
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Democrats are taking aim at President Bush's pledge that he is a different kind of Republican who would govern as a "compassionate conservative."
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Republicans adopted a platform Monday that rallies behind President Bush's agenda while edging the GOP's social principles further to the right.
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President Bush, facing a growing Republican revolt against his Iraq policy, has rejected calls to change course but will launch a campaign emphasizing his intent to draw down U.S. forces next year and move toward a more limited mission if security conditions improve, senior officials said yesterday.
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President George W. Bush on Sunday told conservative members of his Republican Party that White House hopeful Sen. John McCain needed to do some work to win them over but he was a "true conservative."
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Ignoring warnings not to make political capital out of September 11, US Republicans did just that going into day two of their convention aimed at sending George W. Bush back to the White House.
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BUSH: The president laid out his vision of the future, and now the real campaign will begin. In this space at the beginning of the week, we commented that the Republicans would put forward their most moderate
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President Bush aimed for simplicity and directness on Thursday in a speech to the Republican National Convention that drew its strength from plain talk and a sense of destiny rather than detailed policy prescriptions or flights of rhetoric.
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President Bush is going on the offensive against growing Republican defections against his war strategy in Iraq. He scheduled a news conference Thursday to urge Congress to give his plan time to work.
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President Bush suggested on Wednesday that Democrat John Kerry's aggressive new attacks on the White House's Iraq policy show that the Massachusetts senator may not be up to the task of leading the broader war on terrorism.