the same old stuff with some new dressing on top? one of the things that was eye catching at least early on in his campaign when we interviewed him. we talked to him. he would say i want to get rid of the loophole for interest. it will cost me money and a lot of my friends money. but it is ridiculous what the hedge fund guys can get away with carried interest. to me, being a foe of the establishment, across the board, not just washington establishment but the financial establishment, the business establishment, is a huge important part of what has made trump appealing and helped him win this historic election. do this thing no one thought he could do. if he is a pal, he looks like a washington politician or a wall street fat cat. he starts looking more and more like that. the support underneath him will collapse real fast. in the spirit of obama with regard to the turkeys, he is a faux faux.
playing out in the debate. trump is on stage, jeb bush is up there gives the nuance take on we need this kind of pathway, we need to be reasonable. trump will look at him and say, jeb, you re what s wrong. you ve been talk that way for 30 changes. nothing gets done. often certain, never in doubt that. is donald trump. people love that black and white certainty. he doesn t sugarcoat things. that s the way you re feeling. i think you re right. it s not just about immigration. it s about this broader sense that the country is changing and i m uncomfortable with the direction it s going in. also frankly, all of the business establishment, walking away from him in the way that the media is attacking him, that just strengthens him. that s actually a problem that the republican party has created for itself. they ve created this narrative that the establishment is bad and that no authority figure should ever be trusted. to me the idea of rens priebus
have ted cruz. you have rick perry out there. in his smart glasses. not enough to actually make him smart. unable to endorse chris christie or throw their their weight behind him. that is not a chris christie weight joke. i was trying to find another word. that s a problem. lets establish one thing about sarah palin. sarah palin is an entertainer. she s not a politician. she s equivalent of skid row or one of those 80s band out on the festival circuit, carneys playing greatest hit. a live tweet spoken. but i do think that the race with christie, the race in alabama where the business establishment republican candidate beat a really extreme tea partier do show the establishment is resurgent. the idea that the tea party is vanquished is completely overblown. i think there s more to sarah palin than you re giving her credit for as part of a movement that really bothers republican
you know, for more than a decade, the city has been run by republicans. but you wouldn t know it, based on the fact that there are essentially are no republicans in new york, as josh said. and, you know, they re not fielding anybody that looks like they re going to put up any competition against whoever emerges from this primary. and do you think, josh, that s because of the relative quality of the field? no. i think this is actually a pretty weak democratic field. forget about the republican field. joe loeta, who is probably going to be the republican nominee is a talented public sector manager, deputy mayor under guiliani and ran the largest transportation authority in the country. he was good at that and probably should have stayed at doing that. he doesn t have a ton of charisma. i would have said a month ago if bill de blasio, the democratic nominee, gave the republicans an outside shot, because he has been running left and doing things that alien ate a lot of the busine
karl rove because it s realistic. the symbol of the cross pressures is somebody like mitch mcconnell who is up for re-election in kentucky. where rand paul as a tea party candidate surprised him a couple of years ago. where mitch mcconnell has wired rand paul s campaign manager. ron paul s campaign. ron paul and rand paul. accolades for everything. which way does mcconnell go in the end? does he go with the business establishment or the tea party? notable, rand paul has given mitch mcconnell a little cover on immigration. he has opened the door to possibly supporting you re not hearing rand paul. of the tea party people you re hearing ted cruz, mike lee, others like that. but you re not hearing rand paul. and the reason is exactly that. rand paul wants to run for president in 2016. so he s muting it on i think the difference between the 2014 strategy and the 2016 strategy is pretty pronounced. i am of the mind that even if immigration reform passes it is