"All true. All things I've considered, both in the line of tanking your political career and in what that would mean for me. With any luck, I'd salvage my career somewhat and go write for the Huffington Post. I guess that wouldn't be awful, I'm a fan of Arianna, but I prefer to be in the line of fire rather than writing about it. Maybe someday I'll settle for penning a lengthy novel of how I infiltrated the enemy lines and boosted a young, successful Republican politician to fame in my foolish youth." Despite the unhappy turn the questioning took, she managed a half-smile. "This isn't really the kind of thing you talk about on a first date, we should stop."<br/><br/>In a short span of silence, she took a second to assess the direction of things. They may have touched on a subject that was all too real for the both of them, but she still found herself enjoying the company, fascinated to have been given a glimpse at the man behind the curtain, so to speak. "Nah, forget all that. I have all intentions of continuing to do my job and then some. I may not have been able to get in with the geniuses that carried Obama's campaign, but I'm happy to even be riding the wake of the trail they blazed, even if it's for the wrong team. Policies aside, I am heartened that you're modernizing the Grand Old Party."