The one big strategic error -- which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions -- was the prescription drug bill.

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.

It's rare to see both those qualities in one individual, ... She was strategic and a big thinker, but when you asked her to do something, you never worried about the tactics or the details.

Bush's compassionate conservatism has morphed into big government conservatism, and that isn't what the base is looking for. The White House and the congressional leadership have got to reinvigorate the Republican base. In off-year elections ... if your base isn't energized, particularly in a relatively evenly divided electorate, you've got more problems than you think you have.

George Bush is a conservative and most conservatives like him and support him. But most conservatives, at one level or another, are troubled by much of what they see going on in our government.

Big government conservatism is an oxymoron. In 1965 Lyndon Johnson built public housing. Now it looks like we will build trailer parks. This will be defining, in the sense that the neo-cons will end up saying government can do this. The real hero of these people is FDR. I don't happen to believe any of this will work. You can't rebuild New Orleans society.