He sauntered around the campaign office in his Texas boots, cracking jokes in his tequila-sharp twang and earning a reputation for temper.

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Kelly jokes that when he wants to sneak up on her he will come around the right so she can't see him coming.

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But we all rather cringe at his stream of off-colour jokes. (Our Nordic cousins look particularly pained.) And he will flash his money around.

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But he jokes that he did better in his second run for the White House than he did the first time around when he lost the 2008 nomination to Arizona Sen.

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