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The media and "moderate" Republicans, convinced that these issues are the party's weakness and that its libertarian economic ideas are its strength, have interpreted Bush's remarks as a rebuke to Republican "Puritanism."
The sexual puritanism of the GOP's own right wing undid Livingston, and Hastert cakewalked into the speakership only because he is--fingers crossed--above reproach.
The cover story calls the failure to find a U.S. distributor for the new film version of Lolita one more example of our misplaced puritanism: "Statutes like ...
In Paris, the conservative Le Figaro repeated the usual French view that Flytrap is a symptom of demented American puritanism.
Constitution, which "showed it is robust enough to survive even the madness of 1990s puritanism"; and the American people, who held their nerve throughout and "were able to distinguish between the President and the man, accepting one even as they acknowledged the flaws in the other."