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    The senator is trying to escape 20 years of his record in the United States Senate.

    This is because they don't want a debate on the issues, and they don't want to run on Sen. Kerry's record. I guess I can't blame them for that. We as a party cannot sink to their level.We must stick to the truth in this race.

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    Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

    On the critical issues of job creation, homeland security and national security, and who shares our values, they have adopted positions that may help them win their party's nomination, but will be rejected by the broader electorate next November.


    While Sen. Kerry's rationale has evolved over his four terms, his record is clear. His rationale has shifted over the two decades, but his opposition to national defense programs is consistent -- cut, cut, cut and cancel, cancel, cancel programs that are vital to national security, ... Highlighting this fact is not 'cherry picking.' His 20-year career in the Senate is a cherry tree whose roots are found in his first run in 1984.

    George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

    I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

    I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.

    When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

    When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

    I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

    Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

    There was a better than two-to-one ratio in time allocation in attacks against the president versus laudatory comments about Senator Kerry's agenda,


    I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

    They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

    In failing to retract his comments ... Dean continues to help steer the Democrat Party even farther out of the mainstream of acceptable political discourse.

    The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.

    It's only February, and they have made clear they intend to run the dirtiest campaign in modern presidential politics,

    Bill Clinton tapped the brakes on that for two terms by appealing to the middle of the electorate, but he seems to have been an aberration.

    At the end of the day, the fact is that most voters appreciate the president's strong and principled leadership, and they share his views on critical issues involving our national security, creation of jobs and who shares their values,


    So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

    Terry McAuliffe is flat wrong and slanderous when he says the president was AWOL,

    was very gracious in listening to a recitation of memos that go back a long way. I think the record will report that Judge Roberts has been entirely accurate in his statements.

    We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

    This is a classic example of Sen. Kerry trying to escape his 20-year record.

    Democrats in tough districts and in rural parts of the country were distancing themselves from Bill Clinton by the beginning of 1994.

    I don't know that it has to be a judge. I don't think we should abandon the principle that we could put somebody on the bench from off a lower court.

    As the Democrat Party gets smaller, it becomes increasingly more liberal, elitist and angry, and as it becomes increasingly more liberal, elitist and angry, it gets smaller,

    I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.


    On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

    But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

    One, I do believe that the country has reached a point where we have the right mix of private and individual and government involvement.

    Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

    Vice President Gore needed to change the dynamics of the debate.

    I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.

    And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

    If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

    I believe we're the party of small business.

    Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

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    As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Kerry shared the assessment of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, ... He voted for the use of force in Iraq, then later tried to say it was a vote to 'threaten' the use of force, and then ultimately declared himself an 'anti-war' candidate.

    I wouldn't be honest ... if I didn't say there might be a little disappointment on the Republican side about Gore's announcement.

    The more people on the conservative side of the spectrum know about her, the stronger their support will get.

    The House had seemed out of reach for four decades for Republicans. To win back the House was a major shift in the political dynamics in this country.

    Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

    I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.


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