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Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.
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Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.
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I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.
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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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For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist.
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As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.
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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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The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.
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Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.
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Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.
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There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot.
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Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already employed.
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One thing is clear: Ron Paul defies labels.
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Voters crave authenticity.
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Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.
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Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.
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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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Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.
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War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.
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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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I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
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It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.
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Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.
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Obama killed Osama. Yes, President Barack Obama gets to crow about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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