NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Sen. Elizabeth Dole, speaking as an elected official at the Republican National Convention Tuesday, said the party should be guided by simple truths.
The North Carolina Republican is a familiar fixture at GOP conventions, having served as a Cabinet secretary for two Republican presidents, and as the wife of former Senate GOP Leader Robert Dole of Kansas, a former Republican National Chairman, the party's 1976 vice-presidential nominee and 1996 presidential nominee.
"The party of Abraham Lincoln has not wandered in a desert of disbelief or uncertainty," Dole said. "Led now by President Bush, this Grand Old Party is still guided by a moral compass, its roots deep in the firm soil of timeless truths.
"We still believe character is king," Dole said. "We saw that lived out in the life of Ronald Wilson Reagan," the 40th U.S. president, who died earlier in the year.
"We are a great nation because we are a good people. And we are a good people because of what we believe," Dole said, adding those beliefs may be called values or virtues but, "I like to think of them simply as the truths my parents and grandparents taught me."
