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GOP Must Showcase Ideas, Not More Pork and More Attacks

  • By David Winston
  • Roll Call Contributing Writer
  • June 3, 2008, Midnight

Once and for all, Congressional Republicans didn’t lose the 2006 elections because of scandal. They got fired because they forgot that the purpose of a political party is to govern, not simply to get re-elected. They forgot that ideas matter.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.
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