Watch him every day. He has his diagnostic finger on Tennessee's "pulse" but also nationally. You know....there's probably nothing DUMBER than a Dumb Southern Man, but also few smarter than an intelligent, considered well-spoken Southerner. (I give you Jimmy Carter, nuclear scientist, president and life-long humanitarian!) TB's one'a dem!

And this is off-topic, but I've wondered if the pen-and-ink portrait behind your right shoulder (on our left) is of Carter or John Prine. Either is well-qualified to hang in my humble Southern home!