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KETTERING, Ohio – John McCain launched an aggressive attack against Barack Obama on Monday, hoping to remind voters of the GOP’s economic brand after a month of unprecedented government intervention in the financial markets. “This election comes down to how you want your hard-earned money spent,” McCain said to a small audience at the Renaissance hotel in downtown Cleveland. “Do you want to keep it and invest it in your future, or have it taken by the most liberal person to ever run for the Presidency, and the Democratic leaders who have been running Congress for the past two years...

The right, unrestrained Guys and dolls Feb 6th 2003 | WASHINGTON, DC From The Economist print edition Conservatives, off their leash, are a frightening bunch Do you wish that George Bush would quit pussyfooting around with the United Nations and simply march into Baghdad? Do you regard the recent tax cuts as nothing more than a prelude to the biggest chop of all, the abolition of the income tax? Do you wish that America would unleash Ariel Sharon? You are not alone. Last weekend more than 4,000 conservative activists—1,700 of them college students—gathered in Arlington, Virginia, for the 30th annual...