Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it. |
One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics. |
If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie. |
Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win. |
There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals. |
I try hard to be a good Catholic. |
I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends. |
I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages. |
I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing? |
But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives. |