The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.