The Candidate Having the Most Fun Usually Wins

GOP strategist Alex Castellanos writes for CNN about a campaign he once ran for Ricardo Martinelli, Panama’s version of Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi and a man similar in temperament to Donald Trump.

“As a lark, I put a question I had never asked before on a survey and we tracked it: ‘Which campaign is having the most fun?’ It was ours… Doubts about his lack of governing experience were overcome by his buoyant strength and self-assurance. We won.”

“Which returns us to a reflection that should scare all of us in Washington’s GOP establishment, as noted in an interview conducted by Chuck Todd of Meet the Press. Donald Trump is having a lot of fun, isn’t he? More than anyone else.”