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  Liberal Republican Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Liberal Republican Party of the United States was a political party formed in 1872 to oppose the reelection of President Ulysses S. Grant.
Many of the original founders of the Republican party and leaders of the Civil War joined the movement, including its nominee Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, Cassius Marcellus Clay of Kentucky, and Charles Francis Adams of Massachusetts.
The Democrats and their Liberal Republican allies feared the war was a tragedy, They recoiled against centralization, and sought to recapture the purity of prewar days through reconciliation and respect for the autonomy of the states.
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 Republican Party
The Republicans’ ability to draw on rural, small-town, and western voters was counterbalanced by the Democrats’ solid core in the South and among urban immigrants.
Republican state platforms advocated government intervention to prohibit or limit liquor consumption and to shape school curricula in order to promote certain Protestant and American values posed by the immigrants who were tied to the Democratic party.
However, party factionalism continued, and beginning in the 1890s, a group of Republicans known as the progressives sought to balance the party’s commitment to the industrial elite with the use of federal power to correct some of the worst excesses of the monopolies and rusts that dominated the Republican Party.
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 Welcome to The American Presidency
In the 1854 congressional elections 44 Republicans were elected as a part of the anti-Nebraskan majority in the House of Representatives, and several Republicans were elected to the Senate and to various state houses.
Republicans won control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 1918 elections and, at the end of the war, prevented the United States from joining the League of Nations by rejecting ratification of the Treaty of Versailles (see Paris Peace Conference).
After a bitter internal party struggle prior to the 1964 Republican convention, Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona wrested the presidential nomination and control of the Republican party away from the Eastern moderates and began an attempt to convert the party into an ideologically pure conservative party.
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 Republican Party (USA) - SourceWatch
The party is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson or the National Republican Party of Henry Clay.
In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Republican Party in Midwestern states such as Indiana and Ohio was the eagle, as opposed to the Democratic rooster.
Republicans also show concerns about having big government in charge of such vital issues as food, shelter, or health care, as they believe the private sector and/or the individual are better suited to control their own lives.
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 Republican Party - dKosopedia
The Republican Party (often GOP for Grand Old Party) is a United States political party that was organized in Jackson, Michigan on February 28, 1854, as a party against the expansion of slavery.
The Republican Party came to be split along new lines between a conservative wing (dominant in the West) and a liberal wing (dominant in New England) -- combined with a residual base of inherited Midwestern Republicanism active throughout the century.
The Republican Party solidified its Congressional margins in the 2002 midterm elections, bucking the historic trend.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Liberal party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Liberal party LIBERAL PARTY [Liberal party] former British political party, the dominant political party in Great Britain for much of the period from the mid-1800s to World War I. Origins The Liberal party was an outgrowth of the Whig party that, after the Reform Bill of 1832 (see Reform Acts), joined with the
Liberal Republican party LIBERAL REPUBLICAN PARTY [Liberal Republican party] in U.S. history, organization formed in 1872 by Republicans discontented at the political corruption and the policies of President Grant's first administration.
Liberal Democrats LIBERAL DEMOCRATS [Liberal Democrats] British political party created in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal party with the Social Democratic party ; the party was initially called the Social and Liberal Democratic party.
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 Liberal Republican party - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
LIBERAL REPUBLICAN PARTY [Liberal Republican party] in U.S. history, organization formed in 1872 by Republicans discontented at the political corruption and the policies of President Grant's first administration.
The party convention, held at Cincinnati in May, passed over Charles Francis Adams (1807-86), David Davis, and others to nominate Greeley for President; Brown was named for Vice President.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION: Republican party animals; The fanatical followers of George Bush marched into Manhattan, the liberal heart of America, last week.
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Democratic Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the world.
Liberals are increasingly identified as being part of the larger progressive wing of the party.
Civil libertarians also often support the Democratic Party because its positions on such issues as civil rights and separation of church and state are more closely aligned to their own than the positions of the Republican Party, and because the Democrats' economic agenda may be more appealing to them than that of the Libertarian Party.
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 The Republican Party (Harpers.org)
Republicans formally nominated George W. Bush as presidential candidate at their convention in Philadelphia; a display of dark-skinned speakers elicited much comment from journalists who noticed the contrast with rank-and-file Republicans on the convention floor.
Republican partisans were running a knock-off of the famous “Daisy” commercial used by LBJ against Barry Goldwater in 1964; the ad claimed that Clinton and Gore sold the nation's security to the Red Chinese.
Republican operatives were looking high and low for anyone who could remember serving in the National Guard with President George W. Bush between May 1972 and May 1973; one group of Vietnam veterans was offering a $1,000 reward for proof that the president met his military obligations.
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 The Mahablog » Republican Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Republican,” and the right’s enduring presidential hope, had not only been a prominent member of the leading isolationist organization, America First, and opposed the nation’s first peacetime draft in 1940, but also appeared to be as naive about the Soviet Union as he had been about the Axis powers.
It was a mistake to tear liberalism from its populist roots and to emphasize the irrational element of popular movements almost to the exclusion of their own self-understanding.
The notion that Republicans are, somehow, traditionally the party of war and Democrats the party of wusses seems particularly odd when you consider that Poppy Bush (41) was the first Republican president to take the nation into a war worthy of the name since William McKinley.
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 LIBERAL PARTY Platform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Liberal Party of New York State is the longest existing third party in the history of the United States.
The Liberal Party believes that access to affordable, decent health care for all is the mark of a civilized society and supports universal health insurance.
The Liberal Party supports comprehensive civil rights legislation to ensure that members of such groups are not discriminated against, either in or outside of the workplace.
www.liberalparty.org /platform.html   (837 words)

  
 Professor John Gerring: Party Ideologies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Platform: The national party platform, or substitute texts (prior to the introduction of official party platforms), used in the content analysis.
Republican spokespersons: Anonymous (6), Henry C. Carey (1), James A. Garfield (2), Rutherford B. Hayes (1), William A. Wheeler (1).
Republican spokespersons: Chester A. Arthur (1), Roscoe Conkling (1), James A. Garfield (12), Ulysses S. Grant (1), John A. Logan (2), Richard J. Oglesby (1), Carl Schurz (1), John Sherman (1).
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 True Blue Liberal » The Republican Party’s Iraq Offensive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
But as a political issue, the White House and top Republican strategists have concluded that the war is a clear winner.
Bush’s surprise visit to Baghdad on Tuesday — and a lengthy Rose Garden news conference Wednesday in which he extolled the new Iraqi government — mark the beginning of a planned months-long effort, which got an unexpected boost with the death last week of Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
It also reflected Republican strategists’ calculation that although public approval of both the president and the continuing U.S. presence in Iraq have soured, Democratic disarray could give the GOP an advantage in November on an issue that once looked to be a major weakness for Republicans.
www.trueblueliberal.com /2006/06/15/the-republican-partys-iraq-offensive   (418 words)

  
 Bush fires back at Liberal Elitists - Republican Party
A few days ago he blasted the liberals for flip-flopping on the war.
He's right they have, cause their a bunch of politically in-ept cowards, with no platform, and not a snowball's chance in hell of winning the next election.
Remember this, if we truly want our men and women of the military to feel better about all the good they are doing over there, then we need to take that 5 minutes and make ourselves be heard.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art35416.asp   (399 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Liberal Republican party (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
Liberal Republican party, in U.S. history, organization formed in 1872 by Republicans discontented at the political corruption and the policies of President Grant's first administration.
The party convention, held at Cincinnati in May, passed over Charles Francis Adams (1807–86), David Davis, and others to nominate Greeley for President; Brown was named for Vice President.
See E. Ross, The Liberal Republican Movement (1919, repr.
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 Liberal Republican party
Other disaffected elements were drawn into the party.
The party convention, held at Cincinnati in May, passed over Charles Francis
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 Liberal Republican party
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