Mike Murphy , a Republican consultant with ties to two potential presidential candidates for 2008 , Senator John McCain of Arizona and Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts , predicted that there would be a Republican equivalent of Howard Dean , a candidate opposing the war .
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