or the funding to focus in on the way i think people want. he talks a lot about that. specific thinking about the way this country used to talk about moon shots. about centrally organized massive initiatives like the apollo missions and the sort of wistfulness he has, we saw it again in his essay yesterday, talking about our adventures going to mars. this is very important to him. it comes to him from an early childhood of identifying with star trek and being a fan of that sense of human exploration. a belief that he holds deeply. we actually have a clip of him talking about being a trekkie. let s play that. what made the show i think lasting was it was not actually about technology. it was about values and human relationships. i don t think i ve ever heard star trek described in that way. he really identifies with it and he uses it as a lens to look
not but he s an extremely flawed individual. he doesn t fit in boxes. he defies a lot of the boxes he tries to put himself into, his people try to put him in, he puts himself in, that was on display in 2008. sarah palin is helping put people like ted cruz in the senate, that s his ep tat. she s author of when you see his relationship with lieberman and graham and the old guard and then literally on the right flank is someone like ted cruz, marco rubio. was there a palpable sense of doom in and around this older group of senate republicans. i think there s wistfulness. you ll never hear mccain publicly distance himself from that decision or sarah palin. you might if she primaries or gets behind primary against