i m thankful he s come to that conclusion and now thinking a different way to do that. this does sound like a rue gold burg contraption, but we will look at it and will consider it as long as at the end of the day it leads to a balance package that doesn t ask the middle class and seniors to fund corporate tax loopholes. thanks for joining me this morning. up next, as the clock ticks down to getting a deal on the debt. is wall street putting too much trust into congress? plus, mcconnell s, how long before the last choice option is the only option? what do presidential candidates and missing ads on milk have in common? first a look ahead at the president s schedule. the big one, another meeting, another day, 4:00 in the white house, hot rhetoric? we ll see. you re watching the daily
that leads romney and pawlenty and huntsman. only one of those three guys is fresh enough in the announced field to be elected president? it s a very small field when you look at the freshness test. mitt romney ran in 1994 but by losing his clock didn t tick until 2002. you don t get stale until you get in there. at this point so 2002 we re up to year nine, does this mean this is romney s last shot? no, ten years in 2012, he could run again in 2016 and technically he could make it. he s still pretty fresh. but huntsman is more ripe in four years. he has until 2018. romney is an interesting combination, a front-runner with experience but not too much experience, a pretty good place to be. we have three other potential candidates four if you count
president or president from first major election, major election means governor or senator because no one gets elected from the house with the one exception of garfield. which means there s a 14-year sell by date. if you ve been around more than 14 years in one of these major posts. and it s winning it, not just running and losing? first eye lelection to those. the only exception is if you re vice president, the clock stops while you re vice president. because you re sitting there in and already won your national election. quickly, this wasn t your original idea, you had an o anonymous source. deep throat on the 14-year, john mcconnell, speechwriter from president bush who couldn t take credit. let s look at the current field. here the candidates we ve got, the romney, pawlenty, santorum, huntsman and gingrich and paul
rude rudy giuliani. you don t start the clock until he took over the governorship. a lot of fresh candidates have long back stories in legislatures or whatever, public doesn t know chris christie his clock started ticking in 2009, does that mean he s probably not ripe enough in 2012? we ll see but the tendency has been the riper the better. in 2000 and 2008 bush and obama, the two candidates who got to be president, rule that aside whether bush should have been, were the two most inexperienced. so the public seems to be liking freshness more and more. and how would michele bachmann suddenly if she ended up with the nomination and ended in the white house, how would she fit this? she s a rule changing in a lot of ways. she would finally jump the house of representatives if she became president.