well, i mentioned that while saying i can t see that happening but, stranger things might happen. the point was it s way too early to say that hillary clinton is the frontrunner, chris christie is a frontrunner. if you look at history and how fast things are changing now, i really think there is a very good chance that we re going to have a candidate emerge in one or both of the party that s really going to shake things up that might win it that s right now is not on the radar. could be a sports figure, business figure. could be entertainment figure which is how trump came up. very few stranger things actually have happened. i think the point that robin is making is actually correct. you could have a republican like john kasich who is kind of mentioned occasionally the governor of ohio jump out because, as you mentioned in your piece, at this time in the 2008 cycle, barack obama was nowhere. he was not on the list of pollsters were asking people did. things did change. governor k
secret ingredient and we see it in all of these cases is time. if enough time passes, we re liable to forgive a little more. we don t forgive over night. when michael vick was accused of dog fighting, on friday he was denying it, on monday he apologized and said he discovered jesus over the weekend. it doesn t work like that. so the common denominator here, robbie, for sanford, weiner, woods, about a couple years if there is amount of time that has toy lapse before people are i guess either willing to embrace them again or see them, you know, make a comeback. it seems as though a couple of years, two to three years seems to be the common denominator here. do you agree? it depends. if it is a political figure, yes. if it is a business figure, it depends on what you can demonstrate and what period of time and how quickly you can come back. if it is an entertainment, like, for example, charlie sheen, you can come back pretty quickly because the entertainment industry is lot more for g
widely distrusted part of the economy. i think in the broad strokes he comes from a weak recovery. i think most people following it, the general sense that he was in business is a plus, certainly the obama campaign is going to do everything that they can to mute that. it s weird, because what is the basis for his great performance as a job creator? that s fundamentally the problem. successful business figure. he s not a job creator. job creator statistics, they were 47th and the two states behind them were hit by katrina. where president gets credit for jobs that started on day one and ceos have things to do with the broader economy.