Is he -- you know, his strategy for recovery has been to rally his base, to rally the conservative base.

the country's going to be -- it will help with conservatives. It will get them -- it will get them modestly up. But -- but it's no way to build -- rebuild a presidency.

I do believe that Anderson and the way he gains political power and gains political capital, rebuilds his stock is to be more forceful and bolder on both immigration, where he's got a reasonable position and on energy.

I'm afraid that there are a lot of democrats who now believe it's better to have an issue than to have a bill.

I think it's a natural response to what happened with the shooting, and also now with the gas prices being where they were.

that's the kind of rancid politics that I think just turns everybody off, and it does make it hard to plan for the future.

Well, it is true that, you know, with the coming of what's called -- now called the permanent campaign, and that is, as soon as people get elected, they start running for the office for the next time out.

It's harder. It's tougher to sustain. It's tougher to put a plan out there that will get support.

The best leaders are the ones, historically, who have looked ahead, you know, looked over the horizon.

That's what happened when Franklin Roosevelt came in. The country was terribly depressed. And he came in and, with a single speech, his inaugural address, began turning it around.

one of the big judgments we're going to make in the upcoming presidential campaign is, are people going to campaign on the future and have real plans, and then get a mandate for change, or are they simply going to campaign by gouging the…