You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy. - Bill Clinton

There was a time when that statement, from a president to a House Speaker, would be enough. Those days are long in the rearview mirror.

If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two- dimensional, they're easy to absorb. Life in the real world is complicated and real change is hard. And a lot of people even think it's boring.

I ran upstairs to see my wife, we literally just sat there and held each other for, like, 20 minutes.