For many in the increasingly radical Republican congressional caucus a shutdown or a default look like excellent political opportunities.
Lincoln allows the radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens, played by Tommy Lee Jones, to engage in his own dishonorable means in pursuit of the most honorable of goals.
By 1996, the party in Congress had shifted so sharply that Mr Clinton could agree to a truly radical Republican idea, the end of the automatic federal entitlement to welfare.
In fact, his Likud party is in general about as radical as our Republican Party.
Was it the Islamic Institute, the Saudi-funded group that has tried to bring radical Muslim groups into the Republican Party mainstream?
The presidential race pitted a moderate Republican against a radical whose upbringing, his writings, his associations and numerous unscripted statements reveal far left inklings.
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Leave aside pensions, (which the Tories are keener to privatise than Mr Bush is), and the Republican Party takes a more radical line on almost every issue than its peers anywhere else in the industrialised world.
Powell told NBC's Tom Brokaw that he was troubled by the McCain campaign's attempts to associate Obama with former '60s radical William Ayers and some within the Republican Party -- but not McCain -- were making the assertion that Obama is "closet" Muslim.
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Radical Democratic presidents like Woodrow Wilson have seen their foreign policies reined in by Republican Congresses.
The big money Republican establishment was behind Bush because they feared that Reagan was too radical to win, and would carry the entire party down to historic defeat, like Goldwater did.
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The GOP does not have to take the popular position on every issues, but it cannot be seen as taking radical positions on all ten that are contrary to what so many non hard-core Republican voters believe.
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Unlike the second-tier Republican candidates, Messrs Forbes, Keyes and Bauer, who all favour some kind of radical shift towards a flat tax or national sales tax, the front-runners have few ideas for reforming the current tax system.
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