JOEY [KENNY]
All this attention on the leak story, it's magnifying the inevitable “Mommy Problem."
RONNA
Mommy Problem?
JOSH [VO]
When voters want a National Daddy, someone to be Tough and Strong and defend the country, they vote Republican.
When they want a Mommy, someone to give them jobs, health care, the policy equivalent of motzah ball soup, they vote Democratic.
JOEY [KENNY]
On domestic issues, we're three points up.
EDIE
We're better than Vinick on military issues, plus the Congressman was a Marine pilot flying off carriers in the Gulf. Vinick never even served.
JOSH [VO]
Democrats don't beat Republicans on security issues. I know it's phony. I know it's frustrating. But we have to stay in the box that we can win.
JOEY [KENNY]
That's why Vinick attacked Bartlet:
to force us back on security.
SANTOS
So we avoid the press and give them no choice but to cover our economic message.
JOSH
That's right.
SANTOS [VO]
One sentence, and he boxes me into a corner.
Doesn't even mention my name.
DIO MATT :
Say, are you familiar with The Mommy Problem?
LOU :
I am.
DIO MATT :
Do you think I •have• one?
LOU :
That's something you're going to have to answer for yourself,
Because right now,
• Beltway Arnie is kicking you all around the electoral math,
• The White House is treating you like a fly on their governmental windshield.
• And I wonder if it's just Josh,
or do you have what it takes to come out of the Candidate Protection Program
and start kicking back.
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