Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.

Now is the time to be bold. It is easy when the wind is at your back. But the real test is now when the wind is in our face. That's when we find out if we are tough enough. Inspired enough, committed enough.

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

Senator McCain believes there ought to be a limit to how much the government can take from anybody, and he believes that today with the federal tax rate at 35 percent that that's more than the government ought to be taking from any individual regardless of how much they make.

Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it.

71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no matter how much they make.