Governor Brown used to be known for running for president AND for turning a well timed phrase:
And this morning, interviewed on "Meet The Press, speaking of Ted Cruz, who'd appeared on "Late Night" the night before, Brown said, "you can't just sit around and engage in rhetoric... [Cruz] betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of data - it's shocking - and I think that man has rendered himself absolutely unfit to be running for office."
Then back to the environment, "this has to be almost at the level of a crusade to wake people up to take the necessary steps intelligently, carefully, to move the world forward."
He replied to the obvious question that if he were ten years younger, he'd be running for president again. At 66, he was still ready to go. But he's 76 now...
You get a sense that he's never lost his love of rhetorical jousting. And with the timely skewering of Cruz, and the rare national coverage of climate change he answered to - and his ability to shred the climate change deniers - seems he's still got some sunny race days ahead...
For having grown up as a governor's kid, he's done pretty well, more than most. If he decided to, he could beat anyone out there, for my money. Yet who can blame him for wanting to stay on the sidelines - and in the job he already has.
At 76...