June 06, 2006
Hotline After Dark -- "Desperation Politics"?
Contestants were seeing if they could make a "Deal or No Deal" but pundits agree, Pres. Bush will get no deal on gay marriage.
MSNBC's Shuster: "The question is whether the political strategy will work or whether it will fail, as it did with Bush 41, by leaving the impression the president is out of touch with the issues most Americans really care about" ("Hardball," 6/5).
FNC's Baier: "In the 2004 election, a gay marriage ban was on the ballot in 11 states. Each measure passed overwhelmingly. And President Bush won all 11 states. Most of those states have competitive House races this fall" ("Special Report," 6/5).
Pat Buchanan: "I think if George Bush had run on the cultural and social and moral issues in 1992, his father, he would have been beaten Bill Clinton. It was the only area Clinton was vulnerable on" ("Hardball," MSNBC, 6/5).
Dem strategist Bob Shrum: "Pat helped defeat the first President Bush in 1992 and his strategy would have made the election worse for him" ("Hardball," MSNBC, 6/5).
GOP strategist Ed Rollins: "The secret to this game is you always want to be thinking politically, but you don't want to look political. This looks like desperation politics" ("Lou Dobbs Tonight," CNN, 6/5).
Washington Post's Milbank: "They got 48 votes in the Senate when they tried this exactly two years ago. They're hoping for 52 this time. So they'll have this thing passed by the year 2014" ("Countdown," MSNBC, 6/5).
Newt Gingrich: "The fact is this is not a fight anybody on the right picked. This is a fight that a number of judges in Massachusetts picked and this is the only way to respond to that fight" ("Hannity & Colmes," FNC, 6/5).
WHO'S THAT PUNDIT?
MSNBC's Chris Matthews aired his show from Boston last night, but he also got a mention on "Special Report." After a piece aired on a tribute to the late Tip O'Neill, FNC's Hume noted: "During that report, you might have seen a picture of MSNBC's Chris Matthews when we were talking about Democratic politicians. We don't care what anyone says, we don't think Chris Matthews is a democratic politician" ("Special Report," 6/5). [EMILY GOODIN]
Posted at 07:19 AM
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FNC's Baier: "In the 2004 election, a gay marriage ban was on the ballot in 11 states. Each measure passed overwhelmingly. And President Bush won all 11 states. Most of those states have competitive House races this fall" ("Special Report," 6/5).
Actually, Kerry won Michigan and Oregon.
Anonymous | 06.06.06 01:55 PM
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