Ed Rollins Quotes

[The eruption of the flag controversy is a glaring symptom of a distressing change in American politics over the past decade: the way that pit-bull negative ads have led to simplistic, visceral posturing by candidates at the expense of more substantive approaches to real problems.] It's a good issue to define your opponent,.. If your opponent is for flag burning, he's got to go through a very sophisticated explanation.

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There will be a lot of interpretations at the end of it.

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A lot of these Republicans have never been in the minority and a lot of them have come up through the House and not started as senators, so they don't give it quite the same respect that has been there in the past.

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There's always twenty or thirty Republicans or twenty or thirty Democrats that sort of move away from the party line, so you've got to make sure that they are all happy. It's gonna be real tough, it's gonna be real tough.

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It's a good issue to define your opponent. If your opponent is for flag burning, he's got to go through a very sophisticated explanation.

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