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This is a Party, this Republican Party, a Party for free men, …

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This is a Party, this Republican Party, a Party for free men, not for blind followers, and not for conformists. Back in 1858, Abraham Lincoln said this was the Republican Party — and I quote him, because he probably could have said it during the last week or so: “It was composed of strange, discordant and even hostile elements” in 1858. Yet all of these elements agreed on one paramount objective: To arrest the progress of slavery and place it in the course of ultimate extinction. Today, as then, but more urgently and more broadly than then, the task of preserving and enlarging freedom at home and of safeguarding it from the forces of tyranny abroad, is great enough to challenge all our resources and to refire all our strength. Anyone who joins us in all sincerity, we welcome. Those who do not care for our cause, we don’t expect to enter our ranks in any case. And let our Republicanism, so focused and so dedicated, not be made fuzzy and futile by unthinking and stupid labels. I would remind you that extremism, in the defense of liberty, is no vice. And let me remind you also, that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater

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Several Tennesseans tried to cast votes in the presidential primary, thinking that …

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Several Tennesseans tried to cast votes in the presidential primary, thinking that their state was part of Super Tuesday. They weren’t alone. Vice President Al Gore seemed to think so, too. Knox County registrar Pat Crippens said, ‘I just got off the phone with a gentleman. I had to explain we’re not Super Tuesday, we’re just next Tuesday.’ His office got about 30 calls from confused voters. In 1988, Tennessee and 12 other Southern states decided to hold their presidential primaries on the second Tuesday of March, dubbing it ‘Super Tuesday’ in hopes of gaining national political clout. Several Northern states also held their primaries that day. More than a dozen states have since moved their primaries to the first Tuesday of the month, creating a new ‘Super Tuesday.’ Tennessee – the vice president’s home state – is among six that have stuck with March 14. As reporters and photographers watched from the lobby of his Nashville headquarters on Tuesday, Gore called a ‘Miss Ferris’ and told her, ‘Today is the presidential primary in Tennessee.’ His expression changed as he listened to her. ‘Well, you know, that is right. You are absolutely right,’ he said before hanging up and quickly dialing the next number on his voter call list. Al Gore

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Lenin once said that he would rather have everyone in Russia die …

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Lenin once said that he would rather have everyone in Russia die ofhunger than allow free trade in grain. That pretty much sums up thethinking of Sens. Ted Kennedy (D., Mass.) and Arlen Specter (R., Pa.).They and other liberal school-choice opponents are now lining up tofilibuster a bill that would give some 2,000 low- and middle-incomestudents in the District of Columbia $7,500 vouchers to attend theprivate or parochial school of their choice. Their thinking seems tobe that it is better to lock children into the worst public schools thanto give them a choice. Pete Dupont
Former Delaware Gov., Wall Street Journal, 9/24/03