26 ordspråk av Whit Ayres
Whit Ayres
Republicans believe the poor and everyone else benefit from a growing and thriving economy, which is fed by capital investment. Democrats believe that the poor are best served by larger and larger government payments. The Republicans have won that clash of ideas fairly consistently since Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980. There's no reason to think they can't win that same argument again.
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She keeps showing up at the top of the polls because she is an extraordinarily able woman who would completely scramble the normal Republican vs. Democrat electoral dynamics.
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The David Souter example - and to a lesser extent Anthony Kennedy - have made conservatives exceedingly skeptical of any urge to just 'trust me,'
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the most challenging of his presidency, but not that unusual from a historical perspective.
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The Republican race is totally and completely wide open. It's hard to identify another year when there was no favorite for the Republican nomination.
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There's obviously a lot of confusion at the start of any major new program, but the real test will come in 9 or 10 months when seniors have made the selection of a plan and some of the initial kinks have been worked out.
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There's weariness and frustration. But that's different from active, nationwide protests.
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This gains him an increasing amount of attention as an authentic voice for social conservatives.
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This is just a screw-up. I think the base will, after some initial bluster, give him the benefit of the doubt, once they have the facts.
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This issue has reached critical mass. People are demanding that something be done.
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Well before this happened, I was glad the '06 elections weren't being held this summer. The country's in a funk, and it was in a funk before Katrina. But there's a great deal of time for that mood to change.
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