Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.

As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.

I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.