Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?

The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from.

Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.