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I really like Bobby Jindal.
Clintons lie with facility, intent, and design.
Trump is always Trump, and never, ever improves.
FISA targets those who are 'agents of a foreign power.'
We were a family of incredible talkers, readers, arguers.
Barack Obama basically ran as a liberal suburban Republican.
The delta between who I am on Twitter and in real life is zero.
Donald Trump's racism is of course an ongoing feature, not a bug.
Trump 'accomplishments' are ephemeral, coincidental and accidental.
Lord knows I'm all for lowering rates and simplifying the tax code.
As Trump's mistakes pile up, Congress will be left on cleanup detail.
I always advise my candidates, 'You better fight to the last bullet.'
No bully ever turns down a free shot when his posse pins back your arms.
Trump-era name-calling is just as tiresome and juvenile as it is nonsensical.
Every re-election campaign is a referendum on the incumbent. Every. Single. One.
The prisoner never loves his warden, even if he obeys the rules from time to time.
Almost every culture has a cognitive bias for the tough guy, the alpha, the winner.
Long sentence or short, everything Trump touches dies - even his most loyal henchman.
Extinction isn't pretty, especially when you know it's coming and do nothing about it.
Trump sees himself as the center of the media universe, the sun to which all eyes turn.
Trump fans convinced of his strategic genius are welcome to their view, but they're wrong.
Kasich does two fundamentals in presidential politics wrong; he talks, and he keeps talking.
Trump, like any good Stalinist, knows that one death is a tragedy but 100,000 is a statistic.
Because Donald Trump has to destroy everything in his path, why not the true history of 9/11?
It's not that I mind fighting with Trump's cheer squad... it's that it's so rarely a fair fight.
Trump is a masterful con man, he's always trying to squeeze a little more juice out of his marks.
Disasters happen. Nature refuses to cooperate with the best-laid plans of kings and lesser men alike.
I'm of the philosophy that you wage a campaign of full engagement and you use every tool in the toolbox.
If Trump claimed something was the most luxurious, it was likely a dank, low-end casino in Atlantic City.
Trump has learned over his long career as a lying liar who lies that none of his stories have to be true.
There are no points for civility or decency when it comes to prosecuting the campaign against Donald Trump.
A large plurality of the Trump electorate believed the definition of 'conservative' was simply 'Not Hillary.'
I'm going to keep correcting people, sometimes harshly, on the disparity between conservativism and Trumpism.
When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.
The first two weeks of Donald Trump's Presidency made it clear: Trump's Gonna Trump. No newfound dignity for him.
I was born in Florida. My first political campaign was as a field director for George Herbert Walker Bush in 1988.
Stay away from national polls. They are always an illusion. They will always trick you into stupid political behavior.
No bully - and Trump is the apotheosis of every bully, ever - is ever satisfied with just one day's worth of your lunch money.
All the fantasies of Trump-Bannon nationalism require a vastly expanded state, with greater powers over the economy and society.
Even as an empiricist, I have to say that I believe in luck. I've seen it too many times in politics to let it pass by unnoticed.
Trump will never, ever do the right or decent thing, and his consultants certainly won't. He will make outrageous, unsupported claims.
America once used the words 'treason' and 'traitors' only in cases of actual betrayal of our nation's most vital secrets or interests.
We should tell the true stories of that day to honor the memory and sacrifice of those who perished on 9/11 and in the long wars since.
The purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter. The mission of deterrence to make all parties in possession of nuclear weapons never, ever use them.
Only a fool would believe Trump would draw a sharp, bright line between his personal and family financial interests and the interests of the nation.
Even the most liberal reporters I know have a sense of drive and curiosity about what the Clintons are hiding, because they know it's always something.
Be it China, the World Health Organization, the Bavarian Illuminati, or lizard shapeshifters, it's never Trump's responsibility. It's never Trump's fault.
For Trump, there's always a dark conspiracy arrayed against him. Someone is always doing him an injustice by not treating him with the required deference.
All my life, the Republican Party has been my political home. Helping it succeed has been my work for decades. It was never perfect, but families never are.
I think that Republicans are going to deeply, fundamentally, and profoundly regret the way that they have - the way Trump has - framed the party with Hispanics.