Our [Republicans'] object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can't win general elections, who are undisciplined, can't raise money, aren't putting together the support necessary to win a general election campaign, because this money is too difficult to raise to be spending it on behalf of candidates who have little chance of winning in a general election.

And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.

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.

If we're going to have a strong and dynamic economy in the years ahead, we need to tackle some of the structural challenges that our economy faces and the tax code is one of the biggest.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

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

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.