The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"

Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

They are trying to neutralize this issue cluster with Kerry's war record and with lots of pleasing rhetoric.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.