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...nominating his personal lawyer for a job on the United States Supreme Court," she said. "You don't have your personal accountant replace Alan Greenspan. It's embarrassing to hear people describe this as if this is the best woman Bush could get." Veteran conservative activist Paul Weyrich saw insult in the assumption that Bush's followers wouldn't dare question his choice. "They are so used to conservatives falling in line, rolling over and playing dead--that's what they expected," he said...
Opponents of the pill, who say they consider its effects indistinguishable from abortion, make no apologies about treating it as a political issue. Two days before Crawford's announcement, a group headed by conservative activist Paul Weyrich forwarded an e-mail to like-minded advocates, asking them to "call the White House comment line as soon as possible to say 'No Plan B!'" Why were the calls directed to the White House and not the FDA? "I'm told they take notes on the calls," says Paul Caprio, author of the e-mail, "and that information gets to the President...
...candidates are actively courting conservative activists. Karen Testerman, executive director of Cornerstone Policy Research, a conservative group based in Concord, New Hampshire has already met Brownback and Frist personally. "The race is definitely on here," she says. Paul Weyrich, a leading conservative activist who heads the D.C. based Free Congress Foundation, says two of the potential candidates have already asked him for his endorsement, although he declined to name them...
...Weyrich says he and about a dozen others, such as Phyllis Schlafly, have already started talking about plans to eventually rally around one candidate for 2008. Tony Perkins, leader of the Family Research Council, says that could even happen as soon as before next year's elections. "There's going to be an effort to unite behind a single candidate because otherwise we could well have a Rudy Giuliani or somebody walking through and getting it," Weyrich says...
...closet moderate. Late last spring conservative and evangelical groups bluntly warned Frist that their activists would sit out next year's elections if they didn't see him cracking down on Democratic filibusters of conservative judges. "He got the message," says Free Congress Foundation chairman Paul Weyrich. Earlier this month Frist staged a 39-hour talkathon on the Senate floor to harangue the Democrats on the judges they blocked. The gabfest infuriated Daschle, who claimed Frist double-crossed him. Daschle had agreed to Frist's request to keep the Senate working through Veterans Day so it would have more time...