I took our European ousting badly and I realized that if I did not do something quickly things would only get worse, I had to bite the bullet.

Of course I looked at memoirs and autobiographies, and I quickly realized that my thing was not going to be that, because clearly I didn't have a big story to tell.

Holding early primaries is a technical matter, not an ousting,

It ain't no rebirth. I realized it last year when he was here, then he was gone. Quickly.

They took stock of the situation, and they realized the war was over and we had lost,

It took something out of us. I know a 21-3 lead can be erased pretty quickly if your offense executes properly. Ours didn't. Nothing was the same after that.