guy home grown america. here s the problem with personas, by definition they re not entirely real. i ve met ted cruz, entirely smart, i never bought the regular guy persona. when you re top of the class at harvard law and your wife works at goldman sachs, you re not a regular guy. you ve probably been in some pretty elite social circles. and i don t begrudge ted cruz that. but when you try to paint over that with a persona, it s always going to come back to bite you. so if you re looking to take ted cruz down, i m not sure this is fatal, but it certainly does, i think, chip away at, you know, some authenticity issues. so he s kind of running on his anti-resume, wolf. you know, he s princeton, harvard law, clerkship at the united states supreme court, worked for the establishment george w. bush. but he wears let me bring peter into this conversation. peter, what about that? some opponents say he s
rule, where there is no penalty for me to being completely and utterly wrong. that is a good rule to invoke. and good-bye to the pakster. this year is the year of the anti-resume. and if you looked at this race going in, i think you and i were perfectly logical for saying that an evangelical governor, because, you know, there is a negative premium to being a united states senator. it s very hard to be a united states senator, unless they have almost no time in the senate, meaning no votes you can hold against them, whereas the governor is an attractive prospect. and there was this thing called the koch brothers, this big entity of endless cash that has financed successful wisconsin candidates. not to mention the fact that reince priebus comes out of that same stable. not to mention the fact that paul ryan comes out of that same sort of political miasma. i don t think it was illogical, but i don t think anyone really calculated how enraged the republican base really was and how seri