Best quotes from Wonkosphere
by WonkoKevin
Here’s a summary of yesterday’s best quotes from the Wonkosphere:
“The 2008 Democratic Presidential primary has been reduced to one state: Iowa. Clinton is the clear frontrunner everywhere else, but Obama and, to a lesser extent, Edwards, both still have a chance of stopping her there. Gore simply has no such chance, and should stay out of the campaign as a result.” Chris Bowers, Open Left
“He doesn’t pass my gut check, he comes across to me as a used car salesman type, as arrogant and condescending,” Dee from Conservatism with a Heart, on why she doesn’t like Mike Huckabee.
“Mrs. Cheney told MSNBC on Tuesday that it was ‘an amazing American story that one ancestor … could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths.’ ” from Reuters, concerning Cheney and Obama being related as distant cousins.
“If I finish in the top three or close fourth, I’m in the game coming into New Hampshire. If I don’t, I’m gone,” Joe Biden in the Boston Globe.
“Am I real Republican? I gave my blood for the Republican Party in New York, “Rudy Giulini speech yesterday.
“After following Senator Brownback and Mayor Giuliani, I feel a bit like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s fifth husband. I understand he said on his wedding night, ‘I know what I’m supposed to do, I just don’t know how to make it interesting,” John McCain yesterday at same event.
“That kind of stinks. Edwards walked a picket line with the SEIU in Chicago in sweltering August heat and humidity.” Anonymous commentor on story that SEIU will not endorse anyone, including John Edwards, who had been courting them.
Patrick Ruffini on Ron Paul’s support: “This really is a Western movement, with some of the Northeast thrown in. Basically, these are the places where you would expect libertarians to be strong. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen a data set this good about the state-by-state strength of libertarianism. And the data gets more reliable every day. The Paul movement is weakest in the Deep South and the Ohio River Valley. Ohio (and surprisingly New York) are Paul’s weakest big states. The differences are also fairly dramatic. One is 4 times more likely to be a Ron Paul donor in Nevada than in Mississippi. And more than twice as likely in blue Washington state than in blue New York. Alaska and Hawaii, which are not on the map, would also be colored the darkest shade of red.”
