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" By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. "

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" Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost. "

" As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. "

" Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century. "

" Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. "

" For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. "

" I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do. "

" America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. "

" This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne. "

" We must say something, even when we know nothing. "

" Let us now praise Barack Obama. "

" Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president. "

" Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left. "

" The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't. "

" Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out. "

" You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three. "

" I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington. "

" Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will. "

" Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself. "

" Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him. "

" All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth. "

" I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop. "

" The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power. "

" She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her. "

" The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate. "

" While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered. "

" One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close. "

" For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion. "

" Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. "

" The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001. "

" Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket. "