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Article: NEW YORK -- Before my more conservative [Derived headline]
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- Burlington County Times
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- February 12, 2008
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NEW YORK -- Before my more conservative friends start leaping from buildings over Sen. John McCain's presidential primary victories, let me try to coax them back in from the ledge. Despite his myriad apostasies (e.g. McCain-Feingold's free-speech limits, a mixed tax-cut record, creeping Kyotoism and cold feet on waterboarding), the Arizona Republican could do for fiscal responsibility what Ronald Reagan did for tax relief.
Thanks to the Gipper, tax reduction is as central to the Republican faith as the Resurrection is to Christianity. True, McCain heretically opposed President Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. However, he now appears penitent and observant. He proposes to make Bush's tax cuts ...