Re: What is the biggest challenge facing Republicans?

Description: Republicans have always had trouble not seeming mean, Mo Rocca says.

Question: What is the biggest challenge facing Republicans?

Transcript: Well I think that the Republicans’ greatest challenge hasn’t really become all that clear.  I think it might be . . . What’s weird is that you don’t . . . Polls show that people are upset about this war.  But Bush may yet sort of exculpate himself.  I mean that would be the most amazing escape act.  I mean its like  . . . He’s better than Houdini.  And . . . But . . . But if when Bush leaves office and there’s time to think about it, and people decide you know what?  This was really, really a terrible, history changing, epochal event – the invasion of Iraq – then I think that alone will be a huge problem, I think, for Republicans.  I mean maybe that’s a silly statement because by that time there may in fact be another Republican in office.  I don’t know.  I think the Republicans . . . One of the Republicans’ challenges has always been not seeming mean; not being mean. 

Recorded on: 2/14/08