LICKIN BUSH IN'04 "WHERE WINGS TAKE DREAMS"

Q: So if you have gays working for you, that’s fine and you don’t have a problem-you’d appoint gays in the Cabinet and so forth.

A: Well, I’m not going to ask what their sexual orientation is. I’m going to put conservative people in the cabinet. It’s none of my business what somebody’s. Now, when somebody makes it my business, like on gay marriage, I’m going to stand up and say I don’t support gay marriage. I support marriage between men and women.

Q: So therefore if a state were voting on gay marriage, you would suggest to that state not to approve it.

A: The state can do what they want to do. Don’t try to trap me in this state’s issue.

GOP Debate Feb 15, 2000

FLIP FLOP: 2004 - Urged passage of Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage.

“I’m going to talk about the culture of life. I’ve set the goal that every child born and unborn ought to be protected."Los Angeles Times Jun 5, 2000

McCAIN: Do you believe in the exemption, in the case of abortion, for rape, incest, and life of the mother?

BUSH: Yeah, I do.

GOP Debate Feb 15, 2000

FLIP FLOP - Every child born and unborn should be protected, except those conceived through rape or incest. Are they not children?

I’ll work to end tariffs and break down barriers everywhere, entirely, so the whole world trades in freedom. The fearful build walls. The confident demolish them. I am confident in American workers and farmers and producers. And I am confident that America’s best is the best in the world.

Speech, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Jun 12, 1999

Bush decided in March 2002 to impose tariffs of 8% to 30% on most steel imports from abroad for three years. The decision was heavily influenced by the desire to help the Rust Belt states, but the departure from Bush's free-trade principles drew fierce criticism from his conservative supporters. After a blast of international opposition, the administration began approving exemptions.

Washington Post, p. A1 Dec 1, 2003