 While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader. |
| We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks. |
| I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas. |
| We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions. |
| There are not enough people out talking about the President positively. |
| This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton. |
| While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him. |
| People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.' |
| The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican. |
| Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. |
| Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself. |
| I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences. |
