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I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.
Mark McKinnon
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The Hippocratic Oath says do no harm. It's the Hypocritical Oath that says do no harm to one's political future.
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America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.
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I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 2008 primaries. I still supported McCain, and voted for him, but I just didn't want to be the tip of the spear attacking Obama.
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Technology has had more of an impact on the presidency and how the presidency communicates than anything.
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Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.
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Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.
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Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.
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Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.
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A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
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I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.
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I don't think that the press in 2004 was any more unfair to Bush than they were to Kerry.
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