Republican conservatives take center stage at convention
AFP, September, 2004
NEW YORK (AFP) — Vice President Dick Cheney and the Republican conservative core took center stage at the party's convention to defend President George W. Bush's record and make the case for voters to keep him on for another term.
Cheney, a hero of the Republican right and architect of the administration's pre-emptive assault on terrorism, was to formally accept the nomination to run for another four years at Bush's side.
Other conservatives such as Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and Michael Reagan, the son of the late president Ronald Reagan, will also appear after two days of relatively moderate speeches.
The big guns of the right were expected to heap praise on Bush's war on terror and invasion of Iraq, set out his economic goals and lambaste Democratic presidential rival John Kerry as weak and unfit for command.
The Republican gathering was dogged by a ...
