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Something to Consider

Campaigns are an extension of the candidate and the candidate's family. People who want to personalize and lead with negatives, I disassociate myself from them. Politics has become a business: these advisers in Washington force candidates into alleyways from which there's no return. But the American public in today's world is dramatically in need of serious debate, and I don't think they feel there's a lot of bandwidth left for personal attacks.

Former 2012 candidate for GOP nomination, Jon Huntsman

Good For the Gander?

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - On Thursday, just over 17-years after he unveiled the first "Contract with America," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich officially proposed another campaign contract.

Flanked by two huge banners emblazoned with the title "21st Century Contract with America," Gingrich stood alone on stage and spoke to insurance company employees in Des Moines, Iowa. If he is elected president, Gingrich said, he'd immediately begin to act on the new campaign contract. But said he would need two full presidential terms to fully implement it.

You think that's just for him, or is he saying that Presidents should have two terms to enact their agenda? An interesting campaign plank, for sure!

I think some GOP and Tea Party operatives aren't going to like the sound of this Newt-gem.

On the other hand, President Obama might find he has a bit more in common with Gingrich than he thought.


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Quote of the Day

Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican today.

Senator Lindsey Graham, lamenting the lack of focus of tea party activists

Quote of the Day

The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they've given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They've become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.

Steve Pearlstein, "Republicans Propogating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health Care," in The Washington Post.