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McCain repeatedly quoted Mao when discussing politics. McCain has repeatedly quoted "the words of Chairman Mao," stating of his presidential campaign, "[I]t's always darkest before it's totally black," during a July 2007 >appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, and on >other >reported that Gingrich said the House and Senate are "arenas for conflict" where "we sublimate civil war to bring people together." Roll Call further reported, "Gingrich even quoted a political leader not previously known to be one of his influences. 'War is politics with blood; politics is war without blood,' said the Speaker, citing the late Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung." Gingrich regularly appears on Fox News' Hannity, The O'Reilly Factor, On the Record, and Fox News Sunday, and visited Beck's Fox News program earlier this year, according to a search of the Nexis news database.

Goldwater's "alter ego" said he "followed the advice of Mao Tse-tung." In his 1964 target="_blank">5/24/90)

GOP strategist Ralph Reed approvingly cited Mao, Viet Cong. A 1992 Seattle Times article reported that Republican strategist and former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed said in an "interview with The Phoenix Gazette" that "Mao Tse-Tung said politics is war without bloodshed. Clearly, there are some metaphors that sit nicely with politics." (The Seattle Times, 10/25/92, from Nexis)

Reed called for using Viet Cong-style political tactics. In target="_blank">contributing editor to the libertarian journal Reason, wrote that Reed explained the Christian Coalition's strategy of sometimes backing " 'stealth candidates' for local office who would downplay their affiliations in order to attract broader support" by saying, "It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. ... It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic was more effective."

Bush recommended Mao bio to adviser Karl Rove. In his December 26, 2008, Wall Street Journal http://www.latimes.com/business/investing/la-na-social30jan30,1,7544965.story">According to Los Angeles Times staff writer Janet Hook, "[a] generation of free-market conservatives like [Cato Institute president Edward H.] Crane" had been "laying the groundwork for" "Bush's plan to allow younger workers to divert Social Security taxes into personal investment accounts." Hook then cited a 1983 Cato Journal article in which Heritage Foundation analysts Stuart Butler and Peter Germanis wrote: "It could be many years before the conditions are such that a radical reform of Social Security is possible. ... But then, as Lenin well knew, to be a successful revolutionary, one must also be patient and consistently plan for real reform." In their Cato Journal