He wasn't going to be bragging on his son. It's part of the family heritage. He's a little gun-shy to be bragging about me because he doesn't want somehow the critics to be saying, there he is, promoting his son. The old types were viewed, fairly or not, as being against things. Our party kind of slipped into not being for things.
Education is an example.
We were viewed as being against public schools. Perception became reality in this case. Listen, I'm not dealing in history, I'm dealing in the short term. I'm talking about how Republicans have been defined by a politically deft President. I'm faced with perceptions that Republicans don't care about newly arrived immigrants.