Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.

Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need?

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.

The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.