Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past. - Mark McKinnon 2 Share Now -
I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there. - Mark McKinnon 3 Share Now -
As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed. - Mark McKinnon 4 Share Now -
There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot. - Mark McKinnon 5 Share Now -
Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union. - Mark McKinnon 6 Share Now -
Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive. - Mark McKinnon 7 Share Now -
Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else. - Mark McKinnon 8 Share Now -
You know, Republicans should have a consistent philosophy. And if your philosophy is about limited government and not intruding in people's lives, you shouldn't just inconveniently take a social issue like gay marriage and say, 'Well, unless we think - actually we should be intruding your life.' - Mark McKinnon 10 Share Now -
