Quote Of The Week

"OK so Michael, let me get the logic then. Senator McCain's logic is he didn't want tax cuts to be temporary but now he wants those that should not have been temporary to be permanent, like marrying a girl you didn't want to date."

-Paul Begala on Larry King Live on October 30, 2008, explaining to Michael Medved the cognitive dissonance- okay, illogic and probable hypocrisy- of John McCain's reversal of policy on income taxes

Easy Question, Obvious Answer

Larry King, conversing with Dean Caine, Sheryl Crow, Paul Begala, and KellyAnne Conway, threw the latter a hanging curve on the October 13 edition of Larry King Live. Following are the question (about Barack Obama) and the response of the GOP pollster and strategist:

..... from a Republican standpoint, would you at least ruefully admit, this guy has come out of nowhere?

Certainly he has and that's part of why John McCain should go no further than quoting Hillary Clinton, maybe Paul Begala, certainly Joe Biden and whether they really question Barack Obama's inexperience not so long ago , I don't understand why that's not part of the core message....

And that's the way I would have gone had I been John McCain in August, 2008. Then the nominee selected Sarah Palin to be his running mate. And he eviscerated the possibility of running a succesful campaign by stressing the importance of experience in this time of economic and international peril.

Quote Of The Week

"If they let him get away with this maverick act, when he has got 169 lobbyists in his campaign - Barack Obama has zero -- well, then, they will deserve to lose. If McCain is a maverick reformer, then I'm a Hasidic diamond merchant. "

-CNN contributor Paul Begala, on "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees," September 5, 2008

Quote of the Week:

"On Monday, the Supreme Court is going to order Al Gore to turn over the Nobel Peace Prize to George Bush."

-Paul Begala, appearing with J.C. Watts on CNN's The Situation Room (with Wolf Blitzer) on October 12, 2007