Marshall Wittmann
Marshall Wittmann
Marshall Wittmann is an American pundit, author, and sometime political activist. On November 22, 2006, he was hired to be the communications director and spokesman for Senator Joe Lieberman. Wittmann is a former senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council. In 2012, he became the chief spokesman for AIPAC...
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Usually, a candidate has to nail down the base and move to the centre after the nomination, ... She has the flexibility because she has so much affection from the base.
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Just by waiting for the Republicans to self-destruct, the Democrats could lose their chance at rebuilding a majority. Politics works in strange ways.
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Yes, the economy may be doing well, but the standard of living for many Americans is not improving. If the president can't address that anomaly, then his message will likely fall flat.
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You have this dry, parched field, and any spark can set it off. Any hope for a honeymoon for Bush is now dead.
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He could then say with some credibility that progress is being made and paint the Democrats as the party of defeat.
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Boehner should not start putting pictures on the wall and hanging drapes. This could be a very temporary job if the Republicans lose in November.
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Blunt is an insider. He is soft-spoken, but a hardcore right-winger who has very close relations with the business community and ideological conservatives. He's not as much of a lightning rod as DeLay.
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Conservatives have woken from a slumber and realized the government has grown exponentially. McCain has been an often-lonely voice calling for a brake on government spending and more fiscal sobriety.
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Even a sitting president who has a vice president running for office doesn't have a great impact on the way the administration behaves. The goal of the next three years is to repair the president's popularity and resolve the situation in Iraq to some decent outcome. ... If Bush leaves office in January 2009 with Iraq in chaos, nothing else will matter.
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Thanks to Gingrich, 1994 was that rare moment when the opposition party actually had developed alternative ideas about how to govern.
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There were about a dozen of us wanting to stop this or that Clinton plan. When the Mariana Islands came up, I wondered how did this become a conservative issue?
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This is the Lord's gift to the Democratic Party. It is not every day that the Democratic Party gets to the right of the Republicans on national security.
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This is radioactive. This is the issue that dare not speak its name.
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Clearly, they have to make gains in 2006, or it's possible there will be a contest.