His problem was unusual, ... He didn't want to play a Republican for six years. He didn't think he had the internal fortitude to play somebody who goes against everything he personally stands for.

I thought it would be more interesting ... to get her into power where basically her own Cabinet is against her. The whole world is crashing down on her.

I'm trying to show how much the odds are stacked against her. You want to know something interesting? Most polls show that's the case. . . . I don't know how true it is that the No. 1 issue for women in the United States is security, and that women have polled as being more in favor of a man being in charge of the nation's security than a woman.

I couldn't think of another way to get her into power where basically her own Cabinet is against her, the whole world is crashing down on her. And I also feel that as an Independent, it would be naive and fairytale-ish to assume right now that an Independent would come to power at the head of a ticket.