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The conservatives are outraged -- about Bush At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, foot soldiers of the right rail against the big-government, free-spending ways of the White House By Michelle Goldberg

Jersey LessonsWhat Schundler did wrong. By Rick Shaftan, president, Neighborhood Research/Mountaintop Media November 7, 2001 9:50 a.m.   ompassionate Conservatism” bombs again in New Jersey. With a message designed to "reach out to minorities in the inner cities," Bret Schundler joined a legion of other Republicans who failed at trying to reinvent the wheel. Schundler got exactly the same 42 percent vote G. W. Bush received last year — almost exactly district by district — and proved once again that Republican efforts to attract urban black votes are counterproductive. Schundler's message of "empowerment" didn't attract black votes and turned ...

WHY FORRESTER LOST - AND LOST BADLY… Rick Shaftan Liberal “experts” attempt to alibi Doug Forrester’s humiliating defeat saying it was because he was “too” conservative even though across the nation, conservatives like Norm Coleman, Jim Talent, Saxby Chambliss, Wayne Allard and of course Scott Garrett won unexpected or larger than expected victories. Forrester lost badly because he never connected with New Jersey’s largest group of swing voters - “Reagan Democrats” - conservative Catholics who live along Routes 3, 17, 46 and the Parkway. And Republicans will continue to lose as long as they believe that being pro-abortion is the...