There Is Always Strength In Numbers

For Many Years, We Have Had These Campaign Finance Reforms, And They Have Been Failures. Money Is More Coursing Through Our System Than Ever Before. Incumbents Have Used The Laws To Advantage Themselves. And One Of The Reasons I Think They Have Been Failures Is We Have Tried To Crush Down The Money In Places Like The Political Parties, And It Has Squished Out Into Opaque Super Pacs And Sort Of Hidden Channels.

The Other Thing That Has Changed - And This Is More Detailed To Cpac Than The General Republican Party - Is They Have Always Been An Outsider, Ann Coulter, Sort Of Protest Style, A Little Ruder Than Most Republicans. And This Goes Back All The Way To [ronald] Reagan.

The Democrats Have Tried The War Against Women In The Past. It Didn't Really Have That Much Traction.

The Organizing Principle Of The United States Defensive Foreign Policy Had Been Opposition To The Soviet Union. There Is No More Soviet Union.

I Am Struck The Whole Litany Of People, Especially Of That Era, Who Were Involved In Some Scandal Or Another. Some Of It Was Sexual. Some Of It Was More Financial. And It Was Just All Concentrated In A Lot Of People All At Once.