You Can Stick A Fork In Barack

The Marketplace Measurement In Politics Is Something Called An Election. It's A Pretty Good Barometer - It's Transparent, It's Numerical, It's Objective. It Gives You A Pretty Good Measure Of What Your Customers Think Of You. And In 2006 And 2008, The Marketplace Was Telling The Republicans, We Prefer The Products And Services Of Your Competitors. And So When You're Losing Market Share, You Step Back And Say, What Can We Do Differently?

I Think If You Look At Medicare And Medicaid, The Premise Was That Government Needs To Provide Some Assistance To People Who Aren't Able To Take Care Of Themselves. I Think We All Share That Goal, Republicans And Democrats. I Don't Think Anybody's Gonna Go Back Now And Say, Let's Abolish, Or Reduce, Medicare And Medicaid. But As We Confront The Challenges And The Responsibilities Of Our Time - From Here On - How Do We Serve More People Or Different People Who Are In Need Of Financial Assistance? Just Forever Having The Government Expand To Address All Of That Seems Unwise.

The Republicans Had Their Shot Not Long Ago To Address The Real Needs And Concerns Of Everyday Americans, And They Blew It. I Think That's Mitigated By The Fact That We Had A Terrorist Incident, There Is A War, And There Was A Lot Of Proper Focus On Those Issues, But Over The Time That They Were There And Had The Leadership Opportunity, They Blew It. We Got Fired For A Reason.

In My Address Last Year, I Spoke On The Issue Of Gaming. My Preference Then Is My Preference Now: To Keep Gaming Within Its Existing Contours, But To Explore A Better Deal For All Minnesotans.

You Can Stick A Fork In Barack Obama. Politically, He's Done. The Main Way We Can Screw This Up Is If We Choose The Wrong Republican.