DEUTSCH: I'm going to disagree with one thing you just said, and--where you said, you know, `I don't have the--kind of the--either the verbiage or the stomach or the soundbyte quality that politics demands.' As a marketer, as a guy that did a few commercials for you and President Clinton back then, you lay down exactly what--not that this is calculated, but what you do have right now is that authenticity, that passion, the fact that you're not speaking in sound bytes. That's what everybody is looking for. And it's not--if you and I and three mad scientists went into a room 10 years ago and said, `OK...(unintelligible)...these guys, we're going to create the perfect path.'

Mr. GORE: Yeah.

DEUTSCH: We'd say, `OK, let's take this guy'--and once again, this is not what you've done, because you wouldn't be effective in the way of this.

Mr. GORE: Yeah.

DEUTSCH: But take somebody out of the mainstream, let's give him that passionate cause. Whether you are for that cause or not, this is a man of passion. Put him outside the system, put him on a white horse, you would—you could not have scripted a more perfect scenario. So the irony is you are actually perfectly equipped right now for the very thing you hate, this political world.

Mr. GORE: Kind of a Zen campaign. The best campaign is no campaign.

DEUTSCH: There's no campaign. And the campaign thing...

Mr. GORE: But the problem with that...

DEUTSCH: ...your campaign--not what they want out but there but what you believe here, and people are smelling it.

Mr. GORE: You know what that leads to? A Zen presidency. No president.

DEUTSCH: No. I mean--I disagree with you. I disagree with you, and once again, that--that's--once again, I just, where a moment in time, right now...

Mr. GORE: Yeah.

DEUTSCH: ...and people can smell it. And once again, forget all the polls. People see a man of passion right now. And we know even if nobody's talking about what you would do on terror, there's something that's translating that, you know what? Here's a guy that took it in the stomach and said, screw it. I'm just doing what I feel is right.

Mr. GORE: Yeah.

DEUTSCH: And that's what people are thirsting for.

Mr. GORE: Well, thank you. I appreciate you saying that and feeling that. As you acknowledge, it's--that's not my aim, and if it were, it wouldn't be this way. And the way our political system works now, that notional path you're talking about, I don't think that exists anymore.

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