'This Is Just a Firestorm'
And how about Iraq?
I don't know what they'll do on that. I think it's clear that we don't think we should be in Iraq and the Republicans think we ought to be there and stay indefinitely. So there's a clear defining point about what we differently believe in, but I'm going to leave that to the leadership if we win.
Some Democrats want to impeach Bush.
Our primary agenda is not to impeach Bush.
For Republicans in the 2008 presidential race you can be the Bush continuation or a Republican insurgent. Who can be an insurgent?
I actually think whoever is going to win it, they'll either move to the right, which is going to be the end of their status as an authentic person, or they'll be from the right, which will make it harder for them to win.... One of the legacies of George Bush, among many ones that aren't so great for the country, is one that's not so great for the Republican Party. He ran as a moderate, and nobody's going to buy that the second time around.
Anything surprise you about the cycle so far?
Everything surprises me about the cycle so far. If I had asked you 12 months ago or even six months ago what are the reasonable possibilities that the Democrats would take back the House and the Senate and pick up four, five, or six governorships, I think we all would have thought that Howard Dean was spouting the party line and it was all bull----.... And the truth is that that's a reasonable possibility right now.
Any predictions for November?
I'm not going to make any predictions. The last time I made a prediction it was 1980, and I said, "Thank heavens Ronald Reagan got the nomination."
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