Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
Edward Walter "Ed" Gillespieis an American Republican political strategist who served as the 61st Chairman of the Republican National Committee and Counselor to the President in the George W. Bush administration. Gillespie, along with Democrat Jack Quinn, founded Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a bipartisan lobbying firm. Gillespie is also the founder of Ed Gillespie Strategies, a strategic consulting firm that provides high-level advice to companies and CEOs, coalitions, and trade associations. In January 2014, Gillespie announced he was running for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 August 1961
CountryUnited States of America
It's a big area. We've not been in it much in the past,
It's not the kind of thing we'll make money on -- I'm trying not to lose money on it, ... I want to publicize Reagan's record.
This is a classic example of Sen. Kerry trying to escape his 20-year record.
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.
If you look at the party identification and how voters identify themselves, the parties are just about at parity,
Just in 2000, there was a four-point advantage to the Democrats. And what we've seen is the Democrat line coming down, the Republican line going up.
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.
One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
He came out trying to change the dynamics, but he couldn't.
I don't believe we're the party of big business.
I believe we're the party of small business.
We are in favor of greater free markets.
There was a better than two-to-one ratio in time allocation in attacks against the president versus laudatory comments about Senator Kerry's agenda,