THE GREAT THING ABOUT YOUNG TURKS IS THAT
WE SPEND A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME TALKING SUBSTANCE, BUT NOT
STYLE.
AND THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT IS AT LEAST 50/50, IF
NOT MORE, ABOUT STYLE THAN SUBSTANCE.
BERNIE SANDERS CAN'T
PASS ONE THING HE IS SUGGESTING, CAN'T DO ANY OF IT.
WE KNOW
DEMOCRATS WILL NOT WIN THE HOUSE.
ALTHOUGH WITH HIS POPULARITY IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE.
HUMOR ME AND BE REALISTIC.
IT IS LIKELY THE REPUBLICANS
CONTROL THE SENATE AND HOUSE, MORE LIKELY THE HOUSE BUT
PROBABLY THE SENATE AS WELL.
THAT SAID, THE PRESIDENT TALKING
ABOUT THOSE THINGS AS NEGOTIATING FROM A DIFFERENT
POINT OF VIEW, THAT MATTERS A GREAT DEAL.
BUT TO GET BACK TO
THE POINT ON STYLE, JEB BUSH, FOR A GUY WHO GREW UP IN THE
POLITICAL FAMILY AND HAS A BROTHER WHO HAD A VERY ODDLY
EFFECTIVE STYLE, HAS NONE.
HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A BAD STYLE.
HE IS STYLE FREE, UNCOMFORTABLE IN THIS SITUATION.
HE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH CHARISMA.
A ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW WITH THE TURKS OR ANYBODY WON'T MAKE
HIM OR BREAK HIM EITHER WAY, BUT I'M STRUCK BY HIS INABILITY TO
TAKE CHARGE OF THIS CONVERSATION.
AFTER NOT JUST A LIFETIME OF BEING IN THE PUBLIC EYE, BUT
MONTHS AND MONTHS INTO A CANDIDACY WHERE HE'S BEEN DOING
THIS EVERY DAY, ALL DAY.
IT IS TRUE OF A LOT OF PEOPLE, I WON'T BELABOR THIS FOR LONG,
BUT BEING AN EFFECTIVE POLITICIAN, AND THERE HAVE BEEN
MANY WE THOUGHT WOULD MAKE GOOD CANDIDATES, AND FOR WHATEVER
REASON IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN.
RICK PERRY.
PERRY IS DOWN.
HE IS, BUT I DON'T THINK WE KNOW HOW DUMB UNTIL HE WAS ON
THE NATIONAL STAGE.
I'M PRETTY SURE WE KNEW.
WHEN HE REPLACED GEORGE BUSH THERE
WAS SOME TALK THAT THEY SOMEHOW MANAGED TO GET DUMBER, WHICH WAS
HARD TO DO A THING OR LESS ENDLESSLY CURIOUS.
BUT TO GO
BACK RECENTLY, SOME CANDIDATES FOR WHATEVER REASON DON'T HAVE
IT WHEN YOU THINK THEY WILL.
RUDY GIULIANI, WOW, IT SEEMED
LIKE A GREAT CANDIDATE, AMERICA'S MAYOR, A TOUGH GUY,
REPUBLICANS LOVE HIM, BUT HE RAN A MAJOR CITY, HE CAN'T BE THAT
CONSERVATIVE.
LINCOLN CHAFEE DISAPPOINTED A LOT OF PEOPLE.
HE MANAGED TO
AVOID SCANDAL FOR DECADES, COULDN'T DO IT ON THE CAMPAIGN
TRAIL.
IT IS INTERESTING HOW SOME PEOPLE JUST DON'T TURN INTO GOOD
CANDIDATES YOU THINK THIS GUY IS PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER ALL THE WAY,
AND FOR WHATEVER REASON THEY ARE.
THERE ARE ALSO PEOPLE WHO SEEMINGLY HAVE IT, BUT YOU CAN
TELL IT IS SO HARD TO HIDE A CERTAIN, NOT SLEAZINESS
NECESSARILY, BUT I'M THINKING ABOUT MARTIN O'MALLEY, WHO ARE A
LOT OF POLICIES IS QUITE PROGRESSIVE AND SEEMS LIKE A
REASONABLE GUY, BUT WHEN HE COMMUNICATES THERE IS LIKE A 5%
INAUTHENTICITY.
IT IS LIKE PURE WATER WITH A LITTLE LAYER OF
GREECE ON TOP.
ALL THIS IS TOTALLY SUBJECTIVE AND SOME PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO
THINK WHY IS MARTIN O'MALLEY NOT THE NOMINEE?
I DON'T THINK THE SUBSTANCE STANDS UP TO BERNIE SANDERS,
NECESSARILY.
BUT SOMETIMES IT JUST DOESN'T TAKE, AND IT IS HARDLY
ARBITRARY.
IT CAN BE.
QUITE QUICKLY, THEN I AM DONE TALKING ABOUT THIS,
BUT I THINK OF O'MALLEY -- IF THE DEMOCRATIC RACE THIS YEAR
DID NOT HAVE A JOINT HEAVYWEIGHT AND IN A VERY INTERESTING
CHALLENGER, IF THAT RACE HAD BEEN THE REPUBLICAN RACE WHERE
HE LOOKED AT IT AND THOUGHT, WOW, THIS IS WIDE-OPEN, IF THERE
WERE A JEB BUSH WHO WAS THOUGHT TO BE THE NOMINEE AND THERE WERE
15 CANDIDATES IN THERE, I'M NOT SURE WHERE WE WOULDN'T HAVE DONE
BETTER.
IF NOT FOR HILLARY, LIKE, IN A WAY IT SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD BE
EASIER FOR BERNIE, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND HE STANDS IN SUCH
STARK CONTRAST FOR MANY PEOPLE TO HILLARY THAT FOR HER BEING IN
THE RACE IN A WAY ALMOST HELPS HIM BECAUSE HE IS SO CLEARLY
DIFFERENT.
BUT IF IT WAS NO HILLARY, AND SAID YOU HAD JOE
BIDEN AND JIM WEBB AND LINCOLN CHAFEE, I WISH I COULD SEE THAT
RACE, UNFORTUNATELY IT IS NOT THE WAY OUR POLITICS WORK.