“Michael has everything that the GOP desperately needs right now: the ability to communicate our message from a fresh point of view, an appreciation of how we can use technology to build the party, and the ability to reach out to new voters. Democrats are not the only people calling for change. These are our [...]

“Be it BMW, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi or Hyundai, the South has become a sanctuary for foreign assembly plants, for which Southern states have been paying subsidies.” – Pat Buchanan on the “Toyota Republicans” Here’s some more perspective… The $14 billion loan to the Big Three that Republican senators filibustered to death is just [...]

“Wake up people. I mean what are you going to do? Are you going to kick these folks out of the party? I have watched this party self-disintegrate for the last four or five years. I’ve watched this party isolate itself from itself.” – Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele losing the RNC’s chairman position [...]

“In the heat of the campaign, I said some things about President-elect Obama that I could have said more clearly. And I said a couple of things that I wish I hadn’t said at all.” – Joe Lieberman talking to reporters today and trying to mend fences. He has also described Obama’s transition so far [...]

“Let me tell you something, if Democrats take the White House and pass a big-government healthcare plan, that’s it. Game over. Government will dominate the economy like it does in Europe. Conservatives will spend the rest of their lives trying to turn things around and they will fail.” – GOP strategist talking about Tom Daschle’s [...]

“History will favor Republicans in 2010. Since World War II, the out-party has gained an average of 23 seats in the U.S. House and two in the U.S. Senate in a new president’s first midterm election. Other than FDR and George W. Bush, no president has gained seats in his first midterm election in both [...]

“It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force. I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism [...]

With him we get a president with the political intelligence of a Bill Clinton harnessed to the steely self-discipline of a Vladimir Putin. (I say this admiringly.) With these qualities, Obama will now bestride the political stage as largely as did Reagan. – Charles Krauthammer in his column today about the President Elect. It’s genuinely [...]

“Let me say this as to my colleagues. Although committed to their philosophy, they are incredibly pragmatic. They have lived through an experience in the minority. And they know how they got to be in the minority. And they know one very important political principle. They know that if President-elect Obama succeeds, all of us [...]

“I’ve been very impressed with the caliber of people around Obama. There’s great hope they won’t fall down a partisan path.” – Kevin Hassett, John McCain’s top economic advisor in a Fortune article Still, Obama’s plan will be a government driven economic model in the short term, so we’re not going to see the deficit [...]

“What do they think? Do they think that the terrorists have all of a sudden become the good guys, and changed their minds? No! The terrorists still seek to destroy America and her allies and all that it is that is that we stand for: Freedom, tolerance, equality.” – Palin at a rally in Jefferson [...]

“There’s no question Western Pennsylvania is a racist area.” – John Murtha talking taking to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Broad charges of racism are dumb, lazy and don’t give credit to those who fight against areas where it does exists. Murtha has subsequently apologized, but this is one Dem politician I’d love to see put out to [...]

“Very frankly, Dana, I don’t give a damn about an old unrepentant terrorist.” – John McCain in response to Dana Bash’s question about his Ayers attacks on Obama. So I guess the Ayers strategy is now officially off the table? This just keeps getting weirder and weirder… UPDATE: Apparently he cares enough to promise to [...]

“Reporters don’t exist to merely dutifully take down what politicians like Palin say and repeat it verbatim. They exist to force politicians to answer questions that they wouldn’t otherwise have to answer. The idea, personified by Palin’s comment, that politicians should be able to “go over the media’s head” and limit their communication with the [...]

“Unfortunately, I think Obama won this debate.” – Dick Morris, kicking the dirt on Hannity & Colmes (h/t: Calderone)

Now “Show me where I have ever said that there’s absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect or no effect on climate change. I have not said that.” Interview with ABC News, 9/11/08 Then “I’m not an Al Gore, doom-and-gloom environmentalist, blaming the changes in our [...]

“Everything is f**king spin.” – John McCain talking about the Bush White House in Bob Woodward’s new book. Now that is the type of stuff I wish I heard publicly from McCain. Because if he spoke out like this more often (maybe not as harshly) he’d probably lose some of the base, but how many [...]

“I have never suggested that Senator McCain picks his positions on national security based on politics or personal ambition. I have not suggested it because I believe that he genuinely wants to serve America’s national interest. Now, it’s time for him to acknowledge that I want to do the same.” – Obama addressing veterans yesterday [...]

“I think the American people have had enough of inflexibility and stubbornness in national security policy.” – McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann on how Obama is like…Bush? I guess Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Malki is like Bush too since he’s insisting on a timetable? Ahh, politics…

“A black man will be his party’s nominee to be president of the United States. If you were a betting man and you had to place a bet on who is going to win in November, you would be prudent to place it on him. He is a problematic candidate, but not because of his [...]