When we were students in college, Joe Sullivan and I talked about producing an academic report on what the real reason was every time a politician dropped out of a race. The pol usually gave some version of, I want to spend more time with my family, but Joe and I said that was B.S.

Joe was going to actually dig into the various reasons why, but I said I could come up with only one, the universal true reason:

I thought I was going to lose.

That’s it. And I documented this in September of 2006: the monologue from Live ‘n’ On Q. (Yeah, one that’s not on Spotify but you can probably find it somewhere.)

I don’t have Sullivan around to dig for me but I stand by my position in 2024.

See above.