Tom Reiss Quotes

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.

I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

I've long thought that Marco Rubio would make a strong G.O.P. candidate for president. While he was brought into office by surfing on the Tea Party wave, he has proven himself not to be wedded to the frequent lunacy of those folks.

President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

I will support the Republican nominee.

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

I have been a Republican since 1966.

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

I was a Mitt Romney Republican because he was pro-business.

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.

Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.

I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books.