While an excellent speech writer for several Presidents, none of them elevated him to policy level jobs.
He has spent his entire lifetime in the DC Beltway in politics. He did not serve in the military.
His performance of 1/2 percent in 2000 shut him up for awhile, but alas he lives on to talk, talk, talk.
Prolific political pundit. In 1992 he was tossed out of the GOP by Bush I, for his remarks at the convention, in which he was demeaning and disrespectful of Hispanics. His culture war remarks, using "Jose" terminology to disrespect.