Political Pundits

I guess the Democratic argument is that he's just plain evil so he doesn't care one way or another.

I bet you a million bucks that there aren't more than 20,000 people in this country who even understand what Halliburton is or how it is relevant to Iraq.

I think Bush is up. Here's the truth, I think, of the race. Bush's numbers track the numbers on Iraq.

I think you make a pretty decent argument that the economy's better than advertised. But I don't think this election is about the economy.

I mean, there's just in Iraq. And the two are linked together, at least in the public mind. And I don't think there's any way around it.

I think you can take him at his word. He's changed his mind; a lot of people do. The evidence changes, your opinions ought to change. And his have. Amen.

I would rather take the devil I don't know in this race than the devil I do.

I think John Kerry is a perfectly viable candidate. He's obviously proved that he's braver and stronger than the guy we've got.

This is the party, really, of John Ashcroft and Dick Cheney and George Bush and Tom DeLay.

They clearly have some evidence that it's hurting them or they wouldn't have done it.

I don't think the Bush campaign thinks that they're benefiting from this. They're clearly on the defensive.

The fact is neither of them has thought of anything different to do, but stay the course, involve our allies, the obvious solution.

I think the disappointing thing, though, is not the nasty tone of the election. That doesn't bother me so much personally, as the lack of the debate on the issue that matters, and that's Iraq.

The majority people in this room are against the war. The logical conclusion from that is, we ought to withdraw our troops fairly soon.

If by something you mean create the position of intelligence czar and strip all that authority for intelligence from the Pentagon, maybe they should. It's not feasible.

I don't think there is. In fact I would be shocked. In fact I would bet my car that they're not going to dump Cheney barring something..

In choosing Senator Edwards, the Kerry campaign has made a pretty clear statement that they don't intend -- or certainly don't want to fight this campaign out on national security matters, on the war in Iraq and on terrorism.

He wasn't a screaming right-winger, he wasn't. Much in the same way you hear the left prattle on about how say Bush is this Jerry Falwell clone. That's a lie.

He wasn't. He was a pretty moderate Democrat. Much more moderate than John Kerry incidentally.

I think that the right painted Clinton from the beginning as a screaming right-winger, he wasn't.

People trust Bush, and people generally trust the Republicans more in the war against terror.

I don't think we have any idea what the political effect of another attack would be.

I think there's a real question as to whether political ads work in a general election campaign anyway.

The key here is that Kerry's not offering an alternative vision.