If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Political image is like mixing cement.
When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it. Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me. I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I wouldn't be living.