People like passion in politics.

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

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.

People like passion in politics.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

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.

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