In fact, it was the explosion of the deficit during the 1980s that turned my rock-ribbed Republican father into an open-minded voter.

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Nor do farmers, many of them rock-ribbed Republicans, readily acknowledge that the windbreaks and other conservation projects started by the CCC helped preserve the land from devastating erosion.

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Therefore, Giuliani needs a rock-ribbed religious conservative on his ticket.

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Chrysler did it again sweeping to victory as the most attention-worthy advertiser in the Super Bowl on Sunday with a two-minute, anthem-style spot that paid homage to rock-ribbed American values.

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As a rock-ribbed, if rotund, conservative, he admitted he had been flirting with the US Taxpayers Party, whose priorities are to abolish the Federal Reserve, the Internal Revenue Service and the federal income tax.

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They include rock-ribbed conservatives like Oklahoma Sen.

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Things have been further complicated by management changes at the Times which have resulted in the Times hiring a number of editors - including several from the Washington Post - and reporters with a very different political orientation than the rock-ribbed conservatism that has been that paper's hallmark, and its raison d'etre.

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