David Axelrod: “He would be 82 years old at the end of his term if he ran for president.”

There's no doubt about that. But I also want to say this. You know, all presidents sort of feed off of perceptions of the person who came before and they want to position against what people found lacking in the person that came before.

An elderly man, probably homeless, was sprawled unconscious on the museum's front stone steps in the midst of a heat emergency. I called 911, and the operator said, ‘Well, is he ASKING for help?’ When I said no, she said, ‘Well, I'm not…

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.

Unless the economy and his numbers rebound, Republicans are going to feel less willing to follow him blindly.