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He's been intellectually and ideologically promiscuous throughout his political career. So there's all this stuff out there. He can get hit from the left, the middle, from every side. And the Republican establishment and conservatives have landed on him.
And I must say, that period that you just featured in the setup...
-Eleanor Clift
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| the economy, the most important thing that he said, which didn't get much attention, is the complete revision of the tax code, which is the one thing that we absolutely must have if we're going to revive the economy, both the consumer and the business side.
The second thing he said, which again I think was quite intere...
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But let me say this. Look, in the Reagan White House, Newt Gingrich was considered, quite frankly, by a lot of folks to be something of a political opportunist and who was not trusted and who would play no role whatsoever. He was a Rockefeller Republican in the great Goldwater-Rockefeller battle, where conservatism really came of...
-Pat Buchanan
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| Tonally, the State of the Union was a centrist speech. It was a Clintonian catalogue of ephemera that's not going to go anywhere in Congress, and it evaded the big issues -- labor force participation abysmally low, the deficit out of control, the debt out of control --
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: That's the state of the Union.
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