before and my gosh, i spent as you know very well eight years harshly criticizing george w. bush. i remember. i know you do. we had heated arguments about that. george w. bush had the ability to not only take al gore apart and cut him to shreds with a look but ann richards, one of the toughest debaters out there called him shrub. ann richards left that debate not knowing what had happened to her. we keep talking about the voters and we keep talking about trump and we keep talking about carson. we keep talking about the failures of american democracy. i think so much of it has to do with the failure of the republican establishment in not putting forward a strong enough candidate to step forward and make the clear argument they re entertainment. they re fun. i laugh at them when i listen to them.
everybody on the acela corridor knew that gore would just mop the floor with everybody else. and so she came back and said, i think that bush is going to win. he has not that something, that swagger, and he s got something that gore doesn t have. and sure enough, he did. and you know, katty kay, in 1994, he debated a popular tough and mean and in all of the right ways texas governor named ann richards, and everybody expected him to be knocked off of the stage, and she ridiculed him and called him shrub, and he cut her to little pieces. again, it is just so much of it, it may not have to do with the intellectual firepower so much of it though coming from the gut, and that applies to ben