Republicans who embrace this limited but energetic government philosophy are in the ascendant (look at the convention speakers).

Each night, Ms. Soren totes up how often the convention speakers have mentioned those issues.

The Bush team had gone to lengths to keep a show of unity, avoiding an ugly public platform fight and carefully vetting all convention speakers.

Kirby is a popular convention speaker, and travels widely to appear at conventions and meetings.

In fact, he was critical of the campaign's decision not to include Patrick J. Buchanan as a convention speaker.

"This week's convention speakers seemed to forget this tradition," he said.

The Call had advertised her name as one of the main convention speakers.

The Dems.2000 Web site promised to have online chats with convention speakers immediately after their presentations.

Yesterday, Mary Cheney toured the convention speaker's platform with her father.