NEW YORK -- Rising to President Bush's defense, the new GOP chairman says Democrats are offering Americans "a steady stream of protest and pessimism" in absence of real solutions to the economy and Iraq.
"If you get the impression, the other party has come to the conclusion that what's worst for the American people is what's best for them, it's only because that's their explicit strategy," Ed Gillespie said in his address to the 165-member Republican National Committee.
Gillespie, who as a young activist manned phone banks in the basement of GOP headquarters, was made chairman of the party Friday by voice vote. The prominent former lobbyist replaces Marc Racicot, who left the RNC to head Bush's re-election campaign.
Gillespie, 41, hoped his maiden address would help turn the tables against Democratic presidential candidates who have raised questions about the president's use of shaky U.S. intelligence to justify war in Iraq. Both Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday made strong defenses of the war, with Cheney telling a conservative think tank in Washington it would have been "irresponsible" not to take on Saddam Hussein.
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http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-republicans,0,7569239.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlinesThere's an awful lot of defending of Bush going around these days for someone who supposedly is soaring right along. But surely, the "sky isn't falling," now is it Gillespie?
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