Knife Fight Page #6

Okay.

[Chuckles]

Well, no pro... pro... prover...

Look at it.

Wow.

Yeah.

You can kiss me

if you like.

Irregular heartbeat.

He's had it for years.

And one of the great truisms

of the game is,

when voters start to worry

about a candidate's health,

it is a gigantic

numbers suck.

Well, sure, Paul.

But I can't exactly

tell a local news honey

I just happened to sneak a peek

at Perkins' medical records.

Well, no, I mean,

not like that.

How, then?

It's all about how

you frame the narrative.

Look, this is a race

about leadership.

One guy is using his position

in the state senate

to conduct a completely

meritless witch hunt

against a man

who has served the public

his entire adult life,

a man who works

for the state of Kentucky 24/7.

I mean, look...

Look what time

we're talking now.

It's what?

It's 3:
15 in the morning

your time.

[Scoffs]

Yeah.

What you do

is incredibly difficult.

It requires tremendous

strength and stamina.

Yeah, you're f***ing

telling me.

Trying to get

my antiforeclosure thing

through this wing-nut

legislature is like

trying to run a Red Sox flag

up in Yankee Stadium.

How's it going?

Ah, you know,

2 steps forward, 11/2 back.

And not to sound

like some kind of ad

you guys do, but my mama

could've used

something like this.

And if these a**holes

want a fight,

they're gonna get a fight.

And it's an incredibly

difficult fight, right?

I mean, look, all we're doing

is asking the voters

to compare the two candidates'

health records

and make an informed choice.

I mean, you're gonna release

everything you have, right?

I mean, and is there

anything in there

that I need

to be worried about?

Nothing.

- Really nothing?

- Trust me.

Despite decades

of avoiding the gym

like that's where

you get dengue fever,

I have, probably unfairly,

been dealt a pretty good hand.

I'm gonna have my guy

look it over anyway.

And then when we do release it,

every day, at every stop

through every news cycle,

we hammer him to release his.

What if he doesn't go for it?

Well, that's exactly

what we want.

More than anything else,

it's the refusal to release

that creates the story.

Look.

Campaigns always come down

to one thing above all else:

Who do you trust?

And by not releasing,

that causes people

to lose trust.

And once you've lost

the public trust,

you're a dead man walking.

Better him than me.

And that's just the beginning.

Then we get some credible

third parties down there

to just pound him,

ask him, "Has he ever

failed a steroids test?"

You think Roger Clemens

on steroids was a big story?

How about a guy

running for governor

on the juice?

And the nurses are with us

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