Such a pick, however, would help Christie mend fences with national conservatives, still upset with his praise of President Barack Obama personally and of the federal response in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
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He's appealed to national conservatives, who make up the core of GOP presidential primary voters, with series of high-profile speeches to the National Rifle Association's annual meeting and the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
But Perry brushed off the idea on Friday, telling CNN Chief National Correspondent John King that while national conservatives may be making noise in the race against Dewhurst, the local movement will stand for the lieutenant governor.
He understood it to be an appealing platform to the American people writ large, including of course economic, social and national security conservatives and the rest of his Republican Party.
Because she is trusted by Pentagon-hugging national security conservatives, she may legitimize his desire to respond to this pivot point in American history with bold strokes rather than incremental ones.
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Say yes and he will face an angry backlash from most national newspapers and most Conservatives including close allies in the Cabinet.
The projected national share for the Conservatives on Thursday was 25%, UKIP were third with 23% and the Lib Dems fourth on 14%.
Judging by the furious reaction from Scottish fishing groups ahead of its publication - as well as the Scottish National Party and the Conservatives - that seems a tall order.
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The standards committee's inquiry will drag on for several weeks, giving the Scottish National Party and the Conservatives plenty of chances to assert that New Labour, far from bringing progressive politics into Scotland, is aping the worst habits of Westminster.
She has "bilaterals", as they are known in the trade, with, among others, the leader of the Conservatives in the National Assembly, Andrew RT Davies, and the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Kirsty Williams.
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He argues that Reform is stalled, and will never win seats east of Manitoba, leaving the Conservatives still the only national alternative to the Liberals.
With his national following among evangelicals, social conservatives and the Tea Party, DeMint has the ability to make Heritage a much more effective political vehicle.
But he drew the line at claiming that the course of American government was set by a socialist conspiracy, and he feared that the ravings of the extreme right would cost more balanced, practical conservatives their chance at national power.
And it just so happens that in Scotland's Parliament the Lib Dems, the Conservatives and the Scottish National Party, with a combined 70 seats to Labour's 56, are united in the view that, in Scotland at least, tuition fees should be abolished.
The last ended in 1958 when the Liberals and Conservatives set up the National Front in which they agreed to rotate power between them every four years, excluding other political parties and so giving birth to the insurgency and the current civil conflict that has raged for four decades.
The vote could also serve to protect Mr. Rubio from criticism from fiscal conservatives should he run for national office.
Local Conservatives do not share the national party's enthusiasm for the idea.
Tony and I had become friends years earlier when a third friend noticed that both of us were conservatives who read magazines like National Review and The American Spectator.
It will fall--as is so often the case--to conservatives to ensure that the national interest is protected by defeating a treaty Reagan rightly concluded was unacceptable, and that remains so today.
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For months it simmered on the edges of the national political scene, a tantalising wedge issue for conservatives even as key Democrats skirted the discussion.
The national share of the vote won then by the Conservatives was 36%, giving them 277 seats and restricting Labour, with 39%, to an overall majority of only three.
In the 2010 general election, when there was a national swing of 5.1% to the Conservatives, and a regional swing of 6.8% to the Conservatives in West Yorkshire, Bradford West swung 2.7% to Labour.
In 1998, Hawaii's voters passed a referendum giving the legislature the right to declare same-sex marriage illegal, but in the meantime, social conservatives had taken the issue to the national stage, where it promised to pay handsome dividends.
Among the protesters, onshore at least, two Welsh MPs (both Labour) and three Members of the National Assembly for Wales (one Plaid Cymru, two Conservatives).
Case in point: The Show-Me-State of Missouri has been thrown onto the national stage this week in ways that few progressives or conservatives might have imagined.
According to ICM polls for the National Union of Teachers, the big shift against the Conservatives came in 1987 when 46% of teachers said they would support the Liberal Democrat Alliance, with 28% supporting Labour and 24% the Conservatives.
In the last decade the parliamentaty seat has been held by both Labour and the Conservatives, while the Liberal Democrats triumphed at the National Assembly elections.
Partisans will disagree, but since the debate most commentators, including friendly conservatives at the Fox News television station and the National Review magazine, have said the president appeared annoyed and even tired while Mr Kerry spoke.
Conservatives repeatedly pressed Clinton administration officials to state what overriding national interest justified the risking of U.S. casualties.
At the last national election, in 1997, Reform displaced the more centrist Progressive Conservatives as Canada's main opposition, winning 80 seats.
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