Conservatives

The Republican state lawmaker is running against former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in California for a chance to square off against Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer in the general election. He says his GOP opponent embraces big government policies that involve "more borrowed money that our children can't repay."

California Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina last week gained the endorsements of eight Republican Senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Tom Coburn, Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham, Jon Kyl, John McCain, Lisa Murkowski and Olympia Snowe.

In doing so, the eight Senators looked past the more conservative candidate challenging Fiorina in the GOP primary - State Assemblyman Chuck Devore, who is a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army Retired Reserve, and was a Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon.

DeVore says Fiorina believes in a different scope of government than he does.  read more »

A pro-life group that backed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman says the Democratic special election victory in New York's 23rd Congressional District is actually a win for motivated conservative activists.

Democrat and retired Air Force Captain Bill Owens, running in a historically Republican stronghold, capitalized on a split that emerged between Republican liberals and conservatives. Owens defeated Hoffman (49 percent to 45 percent) after the withdrawal of liberal Republican candidate DeDe Scozzafava over the weekend, whose name remained on the ballot, drawing 6 percent of the vote.

The race grabbed national attention when a rift developed among Republican Party leaders...

Albany, N.Y. (AP) - In a Republican Party struggling to find its identity, the surprise withdrawal of the chosen GOP candidate for a New York congressional race -- forced by a rising conservative upstart -- renews a lingering national debate: Are moderates welcome in today's Grand Old Party?

The question became even more relevant Sunday when the ex-candidate, state Assemblywoman Dierdre Scozzafava, threw her support behind the Democrat in the race rather than the Conservative Party candidate favored by fellow Republicans.

The GOP leadership insisted on Sunday political TV talk shows the party is strong and inclusive while Democrats described a Republican party out of touch with the people...

Political conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.

Forty percent of Americans surveyed described their political ideology as conservative, while 36 percent said their views are moderate and 20 percent said liberal, the poll found.

The findings reportedly mark a shift from 2005 to 2008, when the number of moderates was even with conservatives as the most dominant group.

The results, based on 16 Gallup surveys conducted from January to September 2009, also show a greater number of Americans who express conservative positions on specific issues when compared to findings from 2008...

The passions of conservative activists could be reshaping the Republican Party and complicating some 2010 re-election campaigns.

Indiana’s Mark Souder is among four House Republicans likely to face primary opponents drawing strength from the “tea party” movement and its fervent opposition to anything that might trigger higher taxes or bigger government.

Souder, first elected in the Republican wave of 1994, usually lines up with his party’s right wing. But he has angered some conservatives by endorsing earmarks for his district and by backing both the 2008 financial industry bailout (PL 110-343) and the expansion of the program to help recreational vehicle makers...

Washington (CNSNews.com) – Sarah Bond’s outrage over massive deficit spending and debt is not a partisan matter for her. And it was enough to motivate her to travel from San Diego to Washington to let politicians know what she thinks.

“I’m here out of sheer frustration of spending from both parties, and this started with TARP,” Bond said, referring to the $700-billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, pushed by President George W. Bush and supported mostly by congressional Democrats.

Bond was part of a large crowd marching on Washington on Saturday. Adam Brandon, spokesman for Freedom Works Foundation, one of the main sponsors of the event, estimated the crowd at 150,000. But on Sunday, the group’s Web site estimated that hundreds of thousands of people turned out...

Conservatives within the Episcopal Church angered by the liberal views of the church's leaders plan to form a rival denomination.

The new Anglican Church in North America will include four Episcopal dioceses that recently split from the U.S. church, along with breakaway Anglican parishes from Canada.

The announcement comes after decades of debate over what Episcopalians should believe about issues ranging from salvation to sexuality. Tensions erupted in 2003 when Episcopalians consecrated the first openly gay bishop...

A Republican senator from Mississippi believes it would be unwise for the new Congress and the new administration to overreach in an effort to enact radical change for the United States.

Right now Roger Wicker is the junior Republican member of the United States Senate; he won a solid election mandate (55 percent) from the people of Mississippi in the recent election. The former congressman's victory was one of a few tightly contested races won by the GOP. Wicker says if the Democrats try to shove an ultra-liberal agenda on the American public, there could be a serious backlash...

A conservative non-profit organization has completed a study that shows the liberal tsunami on Election Day 2008 was not because the country wanted to move radically to the left, but because voters wanted to punish Republicans for abandoning conservative principles.  read more »

A Mississippi senator who won a tough special election campaign says he won't
hesitate to use the filibuster to block any efforts by the Democratic-controlled
Senate to advance liberal legislation.

Roger Wicker's victory was one of the few bright spots in an
otherwise dismal election night for the GOP. Wicker, who was appointed to fill
Trent Lott's unexpired term, won the seat outright with 56 percent of the vote
against former Governor Ronnie Musgrove. As a member of what he calls the loyal
opposition, Wicker suggests he will work hard to keep the Democratic majority in
check...