Steven E. Moore, who conducted survey research in Iraq for the Coalition Provisional Authority and was an advisor to Paul Bremer for the International Republican Institute, ridiculed the Lancet study in an October 18, 2006 editorial in the Wall Street Journal.

One survey found that Tea Party supporters in particular distinguish themselves from general Republican attitudes on social issues such as gay marriage, abortion and immigration, as well as global warming.

" In America the same political labels ( Democratic and Republican ) cover virtually all public officeholders, and therefore most voters are everywhere mobilized in the name of these two parties ," says Nelson W. Polsby, professor of political science, in the book New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution.

The article says " Republican operatives keep an open line to Drudge, often using him to attack their opponents.

Known for often disagreeing with the Republican Party leadership, Chafee says he did not cast his ballot for President George W. Bush in the 2004 election, instead choosing to write in former president George H. W. Bush as a nod to the Republican Party of his father.

In Alabama, Wiggins says scalawags dominated the Republican Party.

The late Republican scholar Varro says that the Robigalia was named for the god Robigus, who as the numen or personification of agricultural disease could also prevent it.

* September 17 – Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie says that he has no knowledge of a campaign flier mailed in West Virginia that charges unnamed " liberals " with wanting to ban the Bible.

Vidal says that at this point, the damage to the town was " relatively limited ... confined to a few buildings ", including the church of San Juan and headquarters of the Izquierda Republicana (" Republican Left ") political party.

Margolis has said he rejects the Republican Party of 2010 due to the growing influence of the Tea Party movement, which he says now appeals to the fears and prejudices of its followers.

" It also says that Republican Commission member John Lehman " said ... that he told the senators the White House has been fully cooperative.

* February 12-At the launch of the Republican Party, Éamon de Valera says that the Treaty denies the sovereignty of the Irish people.

In fact, he says his best friend in the lower chamber is a Republican: Rep. Michael McCaul ( Texas ).”

* 26 September – In a move described as " the day the gun was taken out of Irish politics ", the head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, General John de Chastelain, says that he is satisfied that the Irish Republican Army has completed the decommissioning of its entire arsenal of weapons.

Conservative and Republican strategists " concoct smears, distortions, and outright lies ", and then disseminate the product as ' talking points ' to right-wing radio and Fox News, which Brock says set a narrative echoed by more mainstream news sources.

Charles N. Kahn III, a Republican who was executive vice president of the Health Insurance Association in 1993 and 1994, refers to his previous battles with Clinton as " ancient history ," and says " she is extremely knowledgeable about health care and has become a Congressional leader on the issue.

The Washington Post says that " perhaps the strangest role " Pickens " has fashioned for himself is his current one: the billionaire speculator as energy wise man, an oil-and-gas magnate as champion of wind power, and a lifetime Republican who has become a fellow traveler among environmentally minded Democrats – even though he helped finance the ' Swift boat ' ads that savaged " Sen. John F. Kerry's presidential campaign.

Together with Republican Thomas Kean, Jr. and fellow Democrat Raymond Lesniak, Sweeney sponsored Senate Bill S2664, the " Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act " in 2011, which Verizon says will encourage the firm to create additional jobs in the state, freeing the firm from regulations established when it was the landline monopoly requiring it to pay for service outages and to provide Government-access television ( GATV ) channels for municipalities on cable TV.

Legend says Hannett did the rerouting to punish the Republican Santa Fe Ring which had controlled New Mexico politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

It was founded by Joan Bokaer, an environmental activist because, she says, " After the 2000 election she realized that few people understood that the religious right had taken working control of the Republican Party ..."

Nemeth is a member of the United States Democratic Party but was appointed by a Republican governor of Michigan as chairman of the state commission for the blind, a position in which he served for 2 years, though he says that he does not like politics.

A November 1947 article in the Springfield Republican says plainly that there was a conflict over politics:

For instance, in chapter XVII he says: " But beneath the smooth patina applied by MacGiolla, The Republican movement seethed with bitter faction and the advanced rot of despair.

The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care.

One Republican senator told this correspondent that he was constantly being asked why he didn't attack the Kennedy administration on this score.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

Senators Ted Kennedy – a Democrat – and Orrin Hatch – a Republican – teamed up with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her staff in 1997, and succeeded in passing legislation forming the State Children's Health Insurance Program ( SCHIP ), the largest ( successful ) health care reform in the years of the Clinton Presidency.

In the 1960 election to choose his successor, Eisenhower endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican Richard Nixon against Democrat John F. Kennedy.

As a result of that effort, the Puerto Rico Legislature approved a law regulating presidential primaries in 1979, the first of which was held in 1980, with George H. W. Bush winning the Republican primary and President Carter beating Senator Edward " Ted " Kennedy in a hard-fought Democratic primary.

** In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U. S. presidential election, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960.

The Republican Party nominated Richard Nixon, Eisenhower's Vice-President, while the Democrats nominated John F. Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts.

Although closely identified with the Republican Party for virtually his entire adult life, Dewey was a close friend of Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, and Dewey aided Humphrey in being named as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in 1964, advising Lyndon Johnson on ways to block efforts at the party convention by Kennedy loyalists to stampede Robert Kennedy onto the ticket as Johnson's running mate.

Warren was also the vice-presidential nominee of the Republican Party in 1948, and chaired the Warren Commission, which was formed to investigate the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Although John McCain easily won Jefferson Parish, in the U. S Senate race that same year between Democrat Mary Landrieu and Republican John Neely Kennedy, Landrieu won Jefferson Parish.

On foreign policy, he reversed his early isolationism to support the internationalism of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Democratic President John F. Kennedy.

Republican Scott Brown went on to win the election and is presently the junior senator from Massachusetts, replacing Ted Kennedy after his death.

In the state legislature Hopkinton is located in the 34th Senate District, represented by Republican Francis T. Maher, Jr, and in the 38th District in the Rhode Island House of Representatives by Democrat Brian Patrick Kennedy.

A Massachusetts special Senate election held in January 2010 produced a significant upset when Republican Scott Brown won the United States Senate seat formerly held for 48 years by Democratic Party stalwart Ted Kennedy.

In 1961 President John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, appointed Republican, Dillon Treasury Secretary.

President Kennedy met with the Republican leaders on June 11, 1963 prior to his television address that night to discuss the legislation.

Wohlstetter and his wife, Roberta Wohlstetter, also counseled both Democratic and Republican administrations, including advisers to President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

In 1960, 83 % voted for Democrat John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, against Richard Nixon, and in 1964, 90 % of American Jews voted for Lyndon Johnson ; his Republican opponent, arch-conservative Barry Goldwater, was Protestant but his paternal grandparents were Jewish.

At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Kirkpatrick delivered the " Blame America First " keynote speech, which re-nominated Reagan by praising his administration's foreign policy while excoriating the leadership of what she called the " San Francisco Democrats "— the Democrats had just held their convention in San Francisco — for the party's shift away from the hawkish policies of former Democratic presidents such as Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy to a more strident anti-war position that the left-wing of the Democratic Party had pushed since Vietnam.

The first general election presidential debate was held on September 26, 1960, between U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, in Chicago at the studios of CBS ' WBBM-TV.

A famous confrontation was the 1952 Senate election in Massachusetts where Irish Catholic John F. Kennedy defeated WASP Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. By the 1980s, the liberal Rockefeller Republican wing of the party was marginalized, with the dominance of the Southern and Western conservative Republicans.

In the general election held in November 2011, a newcomer to the city named Judith Kennedy was overwhelmingly elected Mayor over incumbent Republican Councilwoman Christine Bello.