David Frum

Well, for sure that people are now ready to say, you know what, all that stuff we were telling ourselves about the electoral college, that obviously doesn't stand up.

Well, whether the president has a mandate is a matter of opinion. Whether he has power is a matter of fact.

This is a big defeat, and it's not just the mechanics of voter turnout, although those were bad.

There has been a real shift in power dynamics between the president and the Republican parties, the Republicans' disadvantage.

The election changed a lot. The election changed the underlying power dynamic between the two parties. You know that great line of Al Capone's, you can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with a kind word alone? The…

What did we get? And that is the debate that the administration wants not to have this month.

Governor Romney had good cards, he over played them and the president was able to push him back and push him back pretty hard and he suffered for it.

That was a highly conditional statement in the Rose Garden. What the president said was no act of terror.

What did we get? That's the debate the administration wants not to have this month and that's the debate that is driven home by the events in Benghazi.

You want to be president and that means you have to be president of this whole country.

Look, he's got the money advantage. I think he will be the nominee. And I think of the people the party could have chosen, he would be the strongest president, and I think he'd be a fine president.

I think some of the questions about the flip-flopping occur because Mitt Romney is trying to hold on to some more nuanced positions in the face of a party that is clamoring for red meat.