in and doing a lot of stuff this summer that suggests a lot of interest in the race. a big national prayer event in austin, big republican events over the summerment look. again, like so many of the people on the sud lines he points to the big holes in the field. i mean, there is no one out there who is like him which is to say someone who actually has a lot of experience running a state, been in texas longer than any texas governor, created jobs on an extraordinary scale and also infuses the tea party and social conservative factions with enthusiasm and no one in the republican field like that with someone with the wing of the party and also a credible, credible governing record. you saw him. listen. this is the reason i know a lot of people hate me on both sides. nobody hates you. we had well, i mean, i get d logs and people
policy ideas. i ended up talking to him about that. he wants to be in the center of kind of republican thought and sort of the movement, where republicans go next. and jeb bush very much does not want republicans to go in the direction of charlie crist, toward the center. he wants to sort of preserve a very strong, conservative party. i think he s trying to influence that debate. and part of that influencing is of course criticizing obama, stressing a more conservative alternative to obama. let me think about this in personal terms. alex, it seems to me that a common sense person will say that sarah palin s unprepared to be president at this point, will probably be unprepared in two years given she won t have any more public government experience in that time. she quit the governorship of alaska. she s very attractive in terms of her campaigning ability but no strength as a governing record. and you have jeb bush who may have strength as a governing record but not a great campaigner.
governing record to speak for you or not, doesn t work as well. final word, and the other problem is in politics when you confront journalist with numbers we have videotape and records and we have a phone where we can call the truman library and ask them what the numbers were and then we can put it in a graphic and that s why it doesn t work as well when you see how much more legislation every other president did sign. that s why trump should take a mulligan on this claim. the number of bills passed is not an effective measure of how successful a president has been. a lot of the bills are naming post offices and the like. trump would be much better served to argue that he has accomplished big things in his first year as president, which he has, he delivered a republican tax form and he does have a valid fact-based case to
there is no one out there who is like him, which is to say, someone has a lot of experience running a state. he s been the texas governor. created jobs, and opposed the tea party with enthusiasm. no one like that in the republican field right now. someone who has that wing of the party and is a credible governing record. listen, there s a reason i know a lot of people hate me on both sides. nobody hates you who matters. let s say it. ideologues and people who are so intoxicated by their brand of politics may not like me. that s their problem, not mine. i m doing fine. we had the governor on. we liked him, right? cool guy, relaxed. and a little cocky, the kind of