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Alexander J. Madison – January 29, 2008 Fellow citizens, I was holding out hope that we could save the Republican Party from it’s slow, deliberate and painful march towards irrelevance. But with the only Reaganite in the primary election, Duncan Hunter, dropping out this past weekend, and Tom Tancredo long gone after being pilloried by the GOP cheerleaders on ‘conservative’ talk radio, and Fred Thompson, the only other reasonably traditional conservative, unable to get the necessary traction for a competitive race against the moderates, it is time to cut our losses and let the collapse take its natural course. The...

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Should Sen. Hillary Clinton be elected to the presidency in 2008, she won't use her married name of Clinton, but rather, her maiden name of Rodham.That according to Dick Morris, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton who is now a political columnist. "She would not be another President Clinton. She would be President Rodham. I'll bet you that if she wins, that's what she has people call her," Morris told Fox News host John Gibson today on "The Big Story." "I'll bet anybody in the country that when she gets elected, that's what she's gonna want to be called....

Excerpt - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun active consideration of a 2008 run for president and has personally asked some fellow top New York Democrats for their support in the event she goes ahead with such a campaign, a top adviser said Sunday. "As Sen. Clinton said, she was going to begin actively considering a presidential run after the election. That process has begun," said Howard Wolfson. "She is reaching out to her colleagues in the New York delegation and asking for their advice and counsel, and their support if she decides to make a run," the Clinton adviser...

Excerpt - PRINCETON, NJ -- With a resounding victory behind her -- re-elected to her U.S. Senate seat by a 67% to 31% margin -- there is now tremendous political pressure on New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to make known her previously guarded intentions in the 2008 presidential race. If Clinton does announce a run for president, it will be with the blessing of her constituents. A new Gallup Panel survey of 840 New York residents, aged 18 and older, conducted just before the election, finds that New Yorkers returned the former first lady to office not only believing she...

Hillary Rodham Clinton re-elected at a post of senator WASHINGTON - the ex-First American injury Hillary Clinton was re-elected democratic sénatrice of the State of New York. It thus confirms its base in the American political life which could carry out it to a candidature for presidential of 2008, according to media's. The woman of Bill Clinton had spent nearly 30 million dollars for her re-election campaign to the American Senate, much more than any other candidate with the various polls concerned Tuesday, and this, in spite of an adversary well little threatening for it. This last, the republican...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun building a national political organization, softening her liberal image and taking a lead role in Democratic criticism of President Bush - steps toward a potential campaign to become the first woman president. Former President Clinton speaks about his wife's run for the presidency as a matter of ``when,'' not ``if,'' say people who have discussed it with him. Several of her associates said she is eyeing 2008 as the year to run. Sen. Clinton said Friday that she will not break a pledge to complete her six-year term that expires in 2006....