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The NY Sun welcomes arriving GOP delegates with a walking guide to Republican New York that shows latter-day Stalwarts where to find that statue of Roscoe Conkling.
The paper also offers an essay on NY's Republican tradition that suggests how the party of Lincoln can rediscover its reform roots in the city.
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The elephantine revelry above is captured in a Time photo gallery of the 1948 GOP convention in Philadelphia.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows, and so aesthetes in seersucker with pocket-squares prepare to make common cause with Wayne Newton, Christian rockers and country bands – Branson, Mo., come to Broadway.
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Not all of us will be in the Naked City for the convention, but those of us playing along at home can get in the anarchic spirit by printing out some of these handy posters created by Communists for Kerry. George Soros = Good Capitalist Pig! (Via OC Hiss)
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