The war in Iraq was unwinnable.

And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.

What John McCain didn`t realize was that Sarah Palin was his demographic. He thought he was appealing to younger women, and in fact, Sarah Palin appealed to people who were like McCain, old white guys, who thought she was sexy to skin a moose. That was a miscalculation, it didn`t work. They didn`t do the vetting, they didn`t do the polling.

I talked for a long time about that, what I call the hate wing of the Republican Party.And often been criticized for saying it. But there is such a thing, and it started in 1968 with the southern strategy developed by Richard Nixon to bring southern racists out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party, which they succeeded in doing.

We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

This is a struggle between good and evil and we're the good?

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.