he can t buy it by standing out there at a hot dog eating contest in maine. he can t buy it with a super pac ad. he just doesn t have it. i think that s actually even more than his more than his deviations from conservative orthodoxy as massachusetts governor, i think that inability to connect with base gop voters on a human level, is really what s hurting him. if anyone is taking bets not on the who will be giving the most shout-outs to maine localities, your best bet, it will be mikan brendan doherty, i m telling you up front. i think the severely conservative moment was interesting because it was so bald-faced. but also at this point, it s also kind of honest, in that it s una poll junapologetic to the rhetoric to what he has to do now. at this moment in c-pac, he decides not to run on the record, not as a businessman,