[Mb-civic] In President's Strategy, Two Prongs Collide - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

In President's Strategy, Two Prongs Collide

By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 7, 2005; Page A01

President Bush has long pursued a calculated strategy to build a lasting 
Republican majority, coupling courtship of the party's conservative base 
with efforts designed to attract support from Hispanics and targeted 
swing voters. But rarely have the two sides of this strategy been in 
such conflict as they are today with the possible nomination of Attorney 
General Alberto R. Gonzales to the Supreme Court.

Well before Bush makes his decision known, a fierce battle has erupted 
over Gonzales, the former White House counsel and Texas Supreme Court 
justice. It pits the ideological priorities of social and religious 
conservatives, who think Gonzales is insufficiently opposed to abortion, 
against the aspiration of the Latino community to see the first Hispanic 
named to the high court.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070602320.html?nav=hcmodule
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