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Article: McCain breaking up the party?
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- February 4, 2008
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If John McCain secures the Republican presidential nomination,
his victory would signal a revolution in American politics - a
divorce, after a 28-year marriage, between the Republican and
conservative establishments.
McCain would be the first Republican nominee since Gerald Ford in
1976 to win despite opposition from organized conservatism, and also
the first whose base in Republican primaries rested on the party's
center and its dwindling left. McCain is winning despite
conservatives, not because of them.
Those who built the American right, from Barry Goldwater in 1964
through the Reagan and Gingrich revolutions, are intensely aware of
the dangers a McCain victory portends. Some on the ...