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# *The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians and the Battle to Control the Republican Party*

(Wiley, 2006)

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Date and Time 

September 6, 2006 12 - 2 PM EDT 

Location 

Auditorium/Wintergarden 

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Featuring the author, **Ryan Sager**, Columnist, *New York Post* and Real​Clear​Pol​i​tics​.com; with comments by **Michael Barone**, Columnist, *U.S. News and World Report*, and Coauthor of *Almanac of American Politics*. 

If the Republican Party is no longer the party of Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, limited government, or fiscal restraint, then what is it? And what’s a self-respecting, small-government, fiscally conservative, socially liberal voter supposed to do? In his new book, Ryan Sager argues that George W. Bush’s brand of big-government, big-religion conservatism risks causing a serious split in the GOP — in particular, between the traditional South and the “leave me alone” states of the interior West, such as Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Montana. Please join us for a spirited discussion of the Republican Party’s present and future.

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