In many ways, they are typical suburban Republicans: establishment friendly, fiscally focused and perhaps a little more moderate on social issues than Colorado Republicans farther to the south.
IT HAS become conventional wisdom in Washington, DC, that Kerrynomics is a reincarnation of Clintonomics, the catch-all label for Bill Clinton's brand of business-friendly, fiscally prudent, globally oriented economic policy.
They are socially liberal, fiscally conservative, and market-friendly.
Well-spoken and thoughtful, Duran, a lifelong Democrat, is positioning himself as the most fiscally conservative and business-friendly choice of the major candidates, all Democrats, who will compete on the June 3 primary ballot.
"Coloradans will have a chance to replace government and multinational corporate control of our health and our health care money with user-friendly, bureaucracy-lite, fiscally responsible financing," ColoradoCareYES, the advocacy group behind the initiative, triumphantly declared in an email after Williams's announcement.
CONWAY, S.C. — Gov. Rick Perry of Texas ended his South Carolina schedule early on Monday to oversee the emergency response to wildfires spreading in his state, but not before giving a large and friendly audience here a significant spoonful of his latest campaign theme: fiscally focused and folksy.
Pushed by an increasingly influential bloc of so-called New Democrats in the House who are pro-trade and fiscally conservative, Mr. Gephardt is courting American companies, especially high-tech concerns, with the promise of a more business-friendly Democratic Party.
It is a Clintonian document: fiscally disciplined, cautious, trade-opening, technology-promoting and business-friendly ie, everything populists are not.
"It was fiscally irresponsible.
