The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could … - Eliot Spitzer

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Eliot Spitzer

The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.

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I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates.

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Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

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Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

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