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Our Okie from Muskogee: conservative Tom Coburn runs for the Senate.

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| August 09, 2004 | Miller, John J. | COPYRIGHT 2004 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SOON after Republican senator Don Nickles of Oklahoma announced his retirement last fall, Stephen Moore of the Club for Growth placed a phone call to a doctor's office in Muskogee. He reached Tom Coburn, a 56-year-old family practitioner. "You should run for the Senate," said Moore. But Coburn wasn't interested. He had just survived a bout with colon cancer, and said he had not enjoyed Washington all that much the first time around, when he was a three-term congressman in the 1990s. He preferred delivering babies in the maternity ward to kissing them on the campaign trail.

Then his health improved. He went skiing in December. The phone continued ringing and ...

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