Paul Begala

I think he's attacked him in general not in specific and maybe that's just a different way of saying the same thing.

You know, it's not how voters approach an incumbent's re-election. 7/8 of this election is going to be how is Bush doing? How is the president doing.

Yes, and no. Yes, I think he should be a little stronger on criticizing the president on Iraq. It's an ongoing operation. I think it's a disaster.

The biggest thing I think he could do if he wants to and there's ample time for this is to point out the falsehoods that we've been given about how the president handled it.

No sensible person blames President Bush for 9/11 but no sensible person believes him when he says that there was no threat warning.

I think the White House has done a terrible job. They should just relax.

He has to run two campaigns. He has to continue winning the primaries.

The Kerry campaign will tell you -- and I think they make a good point -- their guy has been tested.

He's still got to keep winning. He keeps winning, he's been very impressive but, you know, Governor Dean, we just heard him, he's going to make a stand in Wisconsin.

He has got to take a really hard look. He's the guy I think who has the brightest future in this Democratic field, besides the front-runner, John Kerry.

He is the most strident on issues like Iraq. In the last few days, he was back on the attack, but not in a very screeching way, and I thought that seemed to work for him.

He is the most strident on issues like Iraq.

Kerry has already won in Iowa, in the Midwest. That's a long way from home.

Winning is better than losing. First is better than second.

I feel for him right now. Here's a guy who at some point sat alone in a room with Al Gore, Al Gore turned to him and said, Joe, if I become president, god forbid something happens, I want you to run the country. You're the best person to…

For Gore to go against that, it's got to be difficult for Lieberman to take.

They are probably personally angry and politically scrambling. They have tried to say Dean is only the candidate of the elite white establishment -- not establishment -- the white anti-establishment-type vote, or maybe just the angry voter.

Dick Gephardt believes that in this issue of Howard Dean allegedly supporting Newt Gingrich on these Medicare cuts in the '90s, he believes clearly that he's got an issue he can knee-cap Dean with and he took it out and whacked him today.