I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
What I said is demonstrably true. The record and votes that I cited on behalf of Senator Kerry are easy to cite and check. President Bush's record of honorable discharge from the National Guard is also just as easy to check. This kind of political discourse is reprehensible.
In failing to retract his comments ... Dean continues to help steer the Democrat Party even farther out of the mainstream of acceptable political discourse.
The House had seemed out of reach for four decades for Republicans. To win back the House was a major shift in the political dynamics in this country.