Any GOP candidate can be dissected to a point that he is railed for having liberal tendencies. Former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has waffled enough around his pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-gun control views to recruit many Democratic supporters. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has flip-flopped so many times on issues of abortion, immigration and gay rights to make one wonder for what party he`s running. Texas Representative Ron Paul`s bent toward being an isolationist who wants to bring home every one of our 572,000 troops abroad makes the anti-terror, pro-military hairs on the back of my neck stand. Though Senator John McCain of Arizona is a friend and a true, decorated hero who I personally think would make an excellent vice president for Mike, he opposed the Bush tax cuts and co-authored legislation for comprehensive immigration reform that some believe jeopardizes national security and American sovereignty. And while former Tennessee Senator Fred Dalton Thompson is also a friend, his record of consistently voting against tort reform, opposing the impeachment of Bill Clinton on perjury, supporting opponents of Ronald Reagan (Gerald Ford and James Baker III) in 1976 and 1980, and failing to support federal constitutional amendments that would ban abortion and gay marriage doesn`t exactly make him "the only true conservative." To be fair, even if Reagan himself were running today, he likely couldn`t dodge liberal labeling, especially for his signing of the Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986, which granted amnesty to aliens who resided in the U.S. since before 1982.
- Chuck NorrisThe GOP was the party of Joe McCarthy. . . . Now, though, it is the Democrats who . . . stifle debate and smother thought.
- Bill BennettThe New London GOP has to start branching out to the ethnic communities in the city.
- Mike DoyleThe mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they`re not the same as the GOP`s. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
- Barbara OlsonThe party that had nominated Clinton in 1992 eventually impeached him, thanks in good part to information supplied by GOP investigators.
- Howard FinemanMaWMR can also now report that the current and recent past Federal probes of various security leaks, criminal activity, and dirty money -- Abramoff, Kidan, CIA leak, Niger bogus documents, AIPACgate, election fraud, Indian gambling casino money laundering, dirty GOP campaign money, Clinton`s
- Ashley TuiasosopoI think if Edgar gets in the race, he`ll win the GOP nomination and beat Blagojevich,
- Avril GrahamThe idea that House and Senate GOP leaders would write two tax reconciliation numbers in the budget -- $550 billion for the House and $350 billion for the Senate -- is not only a cry of desperation by our Republican friends, but also an outrage and a farce!
- Barbara GibsonGOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry`s wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of the people, and reveal him to be a bit of a fat cat. Unlike the President who '” as we all know '” before attending Andover and Yale, was a Cockney matchstick girl dying of tuberculosis.
- Jon Stewart