Paul Begala

Edwards is a guy who's really good in smalltown America. They're sending him to those battleground states in small towns. That's actually where the election is going to be won.

It turns out, none of those things were true. Somebody should be held accountable for that, and if John Kerry can hold George W. Bush accountable for those misstatements, for that misleading, he's going to win the election.

Somebody should be held accountable for that, and if John Kerry can hold George W. Bush accountable for those misstatements, for that misleading, he's going to win the election.

I think it has been maybe the most scurrilous and dishonest thing that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have done, to try to conflate 9/11 and the war in Iraq.

John Kerry is a gun owner. He is a hunter. He knows how to handle a firearm.

Kerry's critique that has been consistent is, the war in Iraq shouldn't blow up our deficit. We should pay for this war rather than cut things like housing, healthcare, education, or increase the deficit.

There's 1,003 young Americans who are dead now because the president thought there was a threat there and told them to go and fight a war there, which we didn't have to fight.

The truth is, if people like me had had our way, it's true, Saddam would have been in office. But he was never a threat to America.

The president didn't tell the truth, he should. That's what this is all about. I don't really care about 30 years ago, I care about today. And he's not leveling with us today.

I think George Bush's central appeal, really, when you strip it all away is, I'll be strong on national defense and I'll always tell the truth. That was his big thing. I'll restore honor and dignity to the oval office.

President Bush tonight is probably going to try to leapfrog ahead of this debate and give a positive speech about his future agenda.

At the end of the day, some guy in Dayton, Ohio, he needs a job.

I do think it makes it impossible for them to make the flip-flop argument, particularly when this week President Bush has both said we cannot win the war on terrorism and we can win the war on terrorism.

I certainly hope Zell, whom I do love and who would give a great speech; he's one of the great orators of our time.

But at the end of the day, some guy in Dayton, Ohio, he needs a job.

The point of the flip-flop attack is the allegation: you're unprincipled. And that's the attack against Kerry.

It does make it impossible, I think, for the Republicans to say that Kerry's a flip-flopper when they have the guy who gave Bill Clinton's keynote address now giving George Bush's.

The president is undermining his own message. What little hair Karl Rove has left, he is pulling out, because Bush unscripted is a very scary thing.

The president is undermining his own message.

It was the Falwell wing of the party that made Bush the nominee.

This is a really phony convention for a Texas truth teller.

If you look at their platform, they're even driving some Republicans away from the party with their own platform.

It's clear that Bush is benefiting from these ads.

I think he would have done very well politically if he had sat down with Senator Cleland and tried to talk this through.

I think that they believe that Senator Kerry has been aggrieved that there have been untrue -- and I believe there were untrue attacks made about his war record.