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To: PROLIFE who wrote (163418)	7/22/2001 11:31:51 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Prolife: Is "Bugs" DeLay your congressman? You live in Texas, don't you?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (163418)	7/22/2001 11:34:47 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

McCain's Obsession With Teddy Roosevelt Has GOP Worried He Will Bolt IN 2004 And Run as an Independent Aides Have Quietly Assembled A Network of Groups to Challenge GOP Orthodoxy, Lay Groundwork for a Third Party NEW YORK, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Republican Sen. John McCain's obsession with Teddy Roosevelt is beginning to have an impact on the Capitol and has some fellow GOPers worrying that he will take his admiration for TR to its extreme and bolt the party in 2004 to challenge a Republican president as Roosevelt did in 1912 when he founded the Bull Moose Party to dethrone William Howard Taft, reports National Correspondent Matt Bai in the July 30 issue of Newsweek. The speculation grew so rampant recently that McCain summoned his advisers to his office and told them not to discuss the possibility of an independent campaign, with him or with each other. ``Have any of us fantasized about it? Sure,'' says Mark Salter, McCain's chief of staff. ``Have any of us really looked into it or prepared for it? No. Because none of us knows if he would do it.'' But just in case, Bai reports in the current issue (on newsstands Monday, July 23), the Arizona senator's allies say it's their job to keep his options open and they've quietly assembled a network of groups to challenge GOP orthodoxy and lay the ideological groundwork for a possible third party. One, the Project for Conservative Reform at the right-leaning Hudson Institute, uses TR's bull moose as its emblem and addresses policy statements to the ``Mooseketeers.'' Modeling himself after his idol, the most skillful reformer who ever happened into the Oval Office, McCain has emerged as the leader of moderates in both parties, pushing campaign reform in both chambers and introducing compromise bills on gun control and a patient's bill of rights. And none of this is lost on the White House, Bai writes. Since the GOP lost control of the Senate in May, Bush aides have been on the lookout for any sign of a McCain defection. But McCain says he intends to remain a loyal Republican and to pursue his own reform agenda. He is currently working on a proposal for some kind of ambitious national-service program, part of his ongoing effort to reach out to cynical independents and drag the party toward the center on domestic issues. ``There is a growing vacuum out there,'' McCain says. ``Unless the two parties move to fill that vacuum, you will see the rise of independent candidates.''