Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

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.

Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.

People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

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

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.