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Monday on Iowa Public Television’s Iowa Press, Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said he believes most Republican voters and candidates agree with him, not his loud rival Donald Trump and that it is a double fantasy that the United States could deport the 11 million illegal immigrants currently living here and get Mexico to pay for a border wall. Kasich said he is in the majority of Americans who believe there needs to be a path to legal status for those here but if they haven’t broken laws, after paying penalties, possibly performing community service and the border is secured, saying...

Rudy Giuliani will prevent a conservative crack-up. Today, after very little effort, Giuliani is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. Dick Morris is predicting a Giuliani vs. Clinton race in 2008. Yet some conservatives are dubious of the man who cleaned up New York, returned it to a vigor unimaginable from the 1960s through the 1980s, and then led New York and the country heroically through 9/11. Well, one knows a politician by the company he keeps, and Giuliani has around him the financial people who created the libertarian-conservative Manhattan Institute. He relied heavily on the Institute's policies while governing...

There’s nothing harder in public life than admitting you’re wrong. By the way, admitting you’re wrong can be even tougher in private life. If you don’t believe me, just ask Bill Clinton or Charlie Sheen. But when you go out on the limb in public, it’s out there where everyone can see it, or in my case, hear it. So, I’m saying today, I was wrong to have voted for George W. Bush. In historic terms, I believe George W. Bush is the worst two-term President in the history of the country. Worse than Grant. I also believe a case...

I am a conservative, I think there is no more fitting place to post this than here at FR, the only caveat I will say is that this post has nothing to do with my handle (rice08)   To quote Charles foster Kane, I have a statement of principles on our country and the world as a whole, here is what I believe in no particular order:     -          Cut taxes whenever possible for any reasonable cause -          Limit government spending, privatize when possible… You want Medicare? Here is a voucher for blue cross/blue shield, go nuts -         ...