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The Republican Party and Moderates (1984-09-06)
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Rep. Leach, a moderate Republican, concurs with some of Mayor Koch's strictures on the Republican Convention, although he expresses them more, well, moderately. Indeed, in his taxonomy "moderate" really does seem to mean moderate, rather than being a cloak for liberalism: "Finally, we hearken much like Bill Rusher does to the Goldwater and Taft traditions of individual rights. What we are concerned about today is a party that has moved beyond Barry Goldwater's individual-rights conservatism ... towards ideological purity rather than the themes of America which are very pragmatic." Mr. Rusher, meanwhile, takes a relaxed view of the fireworks at the Dallas convention: "The conservative movement today is a pretty big thing and a pretty various thing.... Most of the differences in the Republican Party for the immediate future are going to be arguments within the conservative community ... That is, in a sense, just the sheer exuberance of growth."
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Southern Educational Communications Association
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public broadcasting, AAPB, William F. Buckley Jr., Jim Leach, Ed Koch, William A. Rusher, Republican Party, 1984 Republican National Convention, Dallas Texas, conservatism, Barry Goldwater, Robert A. Taft, political ideology, moderate Republicans, American politics
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