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
The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.
Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
In failing to retract his comments ... Dean continues to help steer the Democrat Party even farther out of the mainstream of acceptable political discourse.
It's important for us as a party that we handle the issue right.
As the Democrat Party gets smaller, it becomes increasingly more liberal, elitist and angry, and as it becomes increasingly more liberal, elitist and angry, it gets smaller,
This is because they don't want a debate on the issues, and they don't want to run on Sen. Kerry's record. I guess I can't blame them for that. We as a party cannot sink to their level. We must stick to the truth in this race.
If you look at the party identification and how voters identify themselves, the parties are just about at parity,
was very gracious in listening to a recitation of memos that go back a long way. I think the record will report that Judge Roberts has been entirely accurate in his statements.
But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didnt just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.
I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.