The paradox is that the Republicans could reform their party before the Democrats do.

Just on grounds of being evasive, he will probably get a core of Democrats who will vote against him. But his nomination is not imperiled by any means.

We are crossing party lines here. Lovelace appeals to both Republicans and Democrats.

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.

The conservative base of the party is now to the point of open rebellion (with Bush) and the demonstrations accelerate the trend.

Koizumi beat up on the old LDP and cast the Democratic Party as anti-reform, ... The Democrats should have stressed more that Koizumi's reforms were not enough.