The only support he has out there right now is among the conservative Republican base. I don't think he wants to rile the only friends he has left.

The president realizes that the views of the extreme right wing of his party are not the views of the American people, ... And for the second time in a row, he's sent us a nominee who we really don't know that much about.

The president and the Republican Congress really need to come up with a positive agenda of two or three bread-and-butter issues that all people, or most people, can get behind.

The president has not sent us a nominee who has already hewed to the extreme wing of his party, ... that the views of the extreme right wing of his party aren't the views of the American people, or even close to it.

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.