All of which left a question about the future of northeastern liberal Republicanism.

The party, which once defined liberal Republicanism, is gripped by a malaise.

Mr. Hayes, in the tradition of Vermont's liberal Republicanism, challenged Mr. Davis's priorities and the Governor's support for the Nixon Administration's Vietnam policy.

He knew it might lead to a Democratic victory, but he saw that as a far better outcome than for liberal Republicanism to be revalidated as a serious force in American politics.

Meanwhile, the New York Herald Tribune editorial page, demi-oracle of liberal Republicanism, cautioned Buckley that this was not a time for "staging esoteric debates."

Kissinger had until then been a devoted partisan of Nelson Rockefeller, the matchlessly wealthy prince of liberal Republicanism.

For as long as anyone here can remember, Bellevue has been a stronghold of socially liberal Republicanism.

The Fourth District, which encompasses wealthy suburbs of New York City as well as the largely poor and middle-class city of Bridgeport, long has been one of the few bastions of liberal Republicanism in the nation.

He was a humane and humble judge who reflected a largely vanished political tradition-that of liberal Republicanism.

This, after all, is the state that four times elected Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, a national symbol of liberal Republicanism, and three times voted for Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, icon of Democratic liberalism.