Presenting himself as a populist with grass-roots appeal, he said: "You've heard of the country-club Republicans.

Not exactly the credentials of some raging right-winger or even some country-club Republican.

Mr. Graham, who is 44 and single, is no country-club Republican.

With a populist streak and a conservative bent, this district does not cotton to country-club Republicans or to social-engineering liberals.

The difference here wasn't country-club Republicans but the coal miners in Washington County: historically stalwarts of Boucher, they turned against him over his vote for cap-and-trade.

Sometimes mentioned as a Vice-Presidential candidate, he's a staunch conservative who looks like a traditional country-club Republican.

This is no country-club Republican.

The country-club Republicans were the ones who deserted him for Ross Perot.

Mainline Protestants, otherwise known as country-club Republicans, are edging away from the G.O.P. as it becomes the party of intelligent design and the ban on stem-cell research.

Among Connecticut's country-club Republicans, it is politically correct to be fiscally conservative but socially liberal.