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"This is a 'world's going to come to the end if the other guy gets elected' election," Mr. Kohut said, "and they can justify a lot more negativity than they could in a race that was old Gore versus old Bush".
"Listen, we knew two or three years in advance that the next day, after parliamentary elections, we will have a scandal and we will have people going out and saying, 'Listen, guys, these elections are not legitimate, because there are hundreds of violations and they have stolen our voices,' " Mr. Peskov said.
Let's see: Vote for a guy whose election will do right by a foreign country even though it will strengthen those who you say are hurting this country.
("The problem I constantly wrote about then was that if you invade and overthrow the bad guy, hold elections and then piss off, it doesn't work").
"Not in the formal N.S.C. meetings, but plenty of times, he'd say, 'We've got an election, guys.' " Often mentioned in that era as a man with presidential ambitions or at least a possible running mate for Mr. Ford in 1976, Mr. Rumsfeld was never afraid to tell the president what to do.
You should probably take a stand on this issue, and nuts to your Senate colleagues, who are straight up getting you guys killed, this election year.
"I'm the same guy after the election I was prior to the election," Mr. Bush said.
I am who I am prior to -- you know, that I'm the same guy after the election that I was prior to the election.
"He scoffed at the allegations all along and told me once that his guy won the election, and it could help him get out of the decree," Mr. Relman said.
Watching him in action, I totally understand how this guy won an election and why his campaign is resonating so strongly with Christian conservatives.
