Tony Fabrizio
Tony Fabrizio
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The Gore people find themselves in a situation similar to us in terms of the electoral map. They are having to defend turf they shouldn't have to defend.
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The tail is wagging the dog. While the conservative leadership feels Bush is betraying them, the average rank and file conservative doesn't feel that way.
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Every front-runner stumbles and it's a question of who is best positioned to take advantage of that,
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I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.
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The fact that Weld is the leading contender speaks volumes about the state of the New York GOP. How can there be no homegrown contender groomed and prepared to take on someone like Spitzer? The need for them to call on a former Governor of Massachusetts, a guy to the left of Pataki, when they know all too well that they are toast this time around if they don't field someone acceptable to conservatives is just amazing.
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There's always going to be some type of scandal. It's just the nature of people. When you have so much at stake, people are going to use anything in their power to try to win. That's what this is all about.
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This is where good policy and good politics part ways.
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It could make the difference between winning and losing in a number of congressional districts.
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For the president to promote his agenda, he has to use Congress to move forward and change the subject. But it is difficult to get out of the hole that you dug when in fact your allies are also running for the hills.
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He has no political capital. Slowly but surely it's been unraveling. There's been a direct correlation between the trajectory of his approval numbers and the -- I don't want to call it disloyalty -- the independence on the part of the Republicans in Congress.
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There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.
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These numbers are scary. We've lost every advantage we've ever had.
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I applaud the McCain people, they've gotten a good ride.
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The fractures were always there. The difference was the White House was always able to hold them in line because of perceived power, ... After Tuesday's election, it's 'Why are we following these guys? They're taking us off the cliff.'