Donald Trump Is Not Supposed To Save

Yet When The Hour Of Decision Arrives, It Turns Out That Many Conservatives Care As Little As Ever About Administrative Skill And Executive Accomplishment. Our Party And Our Movement Overwhelmingly Respond To Symbolic Cues. Sarah Palin Is Exciting And Appealing. But What Kind Of Executive Is She? None Of Us Have Even The Remotest Idea.

Reagan Survived The Iran-contra Scandal Because The Elements Of It That Were Illegal (aiding Anti-communist Nicaraguans) Were Popular And The Things That Were Unpopular (arming The Iranians) Were Quite Legal.

One Of The Reasons I've Been Interested In The Us Health Care Is That Here Is Something You Can Do, That Could Lift One Of The Largest Burdens Of Worry From The Shoulders Of Tens Of Millions Of People For Whom The Rest Of The Economy Isn't Working. A Lot Of The Things That Are In Obamacare That Republicans Don't Like Were Deliberately Put There To Force Republicans To Negotiate. Republicans Wouldn't Negotiate, So We Got Obamacare With All Of The Fur On It. Once It's There, Of Course, It's Very Hard To Take Health Care Benefits Away From People, As The Republicans Discovered.

Anybody Who Imagines That An Election Can Be Won Under These Circumstances By Banging On About William Ayers And Jeremiah Wright Is ... To Put It Mildly ... Severely Under-estimating The Electoral Importance Of Pocketbook Issues. We Conservatives Are Sending A Powerful, Inadvertent Message With This Negative Campaign Against Barack Obama's Associations And Former Associations: That We Lack A Positive Agenda Of Our Own And That We Don't Care About The Economic Issues That Are Worrying American Voters.

You've Worked Hard All Your Life. You've Paid Medicare Taxes For Almost 30 Years. But Under The Republican Plan, Medicare Won't Be There For You. Instead Of Medicare As It Exists Now, Under The Republican Plan You'll Get A Voucher That Will Pay As Little As Half Your Medicare Costs When You Turn 65—and As Little As A Quarter In Your 80s. And All So That Millionaires And Billionaires Can Have A Huge Tax Cut.