One Republican operative described Quist, to Politico, as "a glorified homeless person".
Floyd Brown, a conservative Republican operative, described McCarthy to me as the Party's "secret weapon".
Those last 10 days have largely been spent assessing the practical questions of conducting a campaign in what one operative described as a "very low-key, very hush-hush" way.
Speaking to The Hill newspaper on Friday, Mr. Saltsman, a longtime Republican operative, described it as a "light-hearted" gift that would be received in "good humor" by members of the Republican National Committee.
In an e-mail message sent today to an Arabic-language magazine in London, a man American officials say they believe is an Al Qaeda operative described the attack as having been well prepared and said further strikes might lie ahead.
When one political operative described Mr. Paterson as the opposite of a steamroller — Mr. Spitzer's self-description — that left the uncomfortable image of someone who can get rolled altogether too easily.
Prosecutors have offered one of the few publicly available glimpses of the shadowy Hezbollah operative, describing him as the "apex" of the cell that allegedly killed Hariri, and a figure akin to an "untraceable ghost" who assumed multiple identities.
As if this state's candidate-challenged Republican Party was not having enough trouble trying to hold on to the Senate seat that is up for grabs this year, along came what one Illinois Republican operative described gloomily on Wednesday as "Obama-palooza".
Lambert arranged a clandestine meeting between the operative, described by Ellison as "the spy in the Lawrence family camp", and a senior officer who was helping to draw up the Met's defence of their failed investigation into their son's murder.
Prosecutors have offered one of the few publicly available glimpses of the shadowy Hezbollah operative, describing him as the "apex" of the cell that allegedly killed Hariri, and a figure who was akin to an "untraceable ghost" who assumed multiple identities.
