Posted on 03/12/2006 4:12:05 PM PST by Brian_Baldwin
PENCE: Well, it wouldn't be the first time that House conservatives disagreed with this administration, Chris. Many of us broke with the president on the expansion of the Education Department and No Child Left Behind, and a few dozen of us broke with the president when he advanced the creation of the first new entitlement in the Medicare prescription drug bill. What we put out this week we actually call the Contract With America Renewed, because it was based on the budget that the brand new Republican majority passed out of the House of Representatives in 1995. We balanced the budget in five years. It is significantly more aggressive than the budget that the president sent to the Hill. But, Chris, I really believe that we are in danger of becoming the party of big government. And despite the fact that we just passed the first deficit reduction bill since 1997, I think the American people long for leadership, independent leadership, on Capitol Hill that hews to the conservative principles that minted this majority in 1994.
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The next President will not be from Congress.
I agree.
When to make your guy unpopular with the Republican Activists. In case the Whine All The Time missed it, Bush won 2xs. Rabidly screaming stupid slogans and mindless hate Bush is pretty much a sure way to LOSE support for your guy. The Knee Jerks should put their emotional hysteria on hold. Reagan understood how to win. That is why he did NOT run around after losing in 1976 bad mouthing Bush. All this bile and spite does is make people who actually NOMINATE the canidate in 2008 think your guy is a frindge Buchannaite wacko.
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