Mickey Kaus Quotes

But I'm not particularly aligned with the Democratic Party's policy agenda.

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

I suppose we could say of Gen. Cameron that he is not Democrat enough to hurt him.

Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line

Had some inscrutable decree of fate ordained and made it certain, with a certainty not to be disturbed, that no candidate could be returned to Parliament who would not assert the earth to be triangular, there would rise immediately a clamorous assertion of triangularity among political aspirants. The test would be innocent. Candidates have swallowed, and daily do swallow, many a worse one. As might be this doctrine of a great triangle, so is the doctrine of Home Rule.

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

The fact is that Democrats cannot stand dissent.

Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the sworn enemy of the right. The Clintons, in other words, while hardly being left, have been defined as the opposite of being right - the enemy of my enemy being my friend.

The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn't made up of Democrats. It comprises Republicans.

There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’

Thus it comes about that (with some few exceptions) we have a House of Commons composed of a number of mediocrities who are content to echo the shibboleths of their party, to vote like sheep and to respond to the crack of the party whip.

I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.

I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.

I think it becomes incumbent upon a candidate to essentially disavow some of the things that are in that party platform. Otherwise, I think the assumption is that you are a true believer.

Many Virginia Republicans would rather work with Democrats to assist the Kaine-Clinton-McAuliffe agenda than work with a conservative like me to block Obamacare's failed legacy in Virginia.

I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

My father was a Democrat.

If there is one good thing I can say about the Republicans, it is that they are generally better than Democrats at putting the interests of their party above the interests of any one of its members.