"I want to do everything I can to make her better at that podium," Scaramucci told Tapper in the same interview.
"One, two, three for Team USA, I don't think you can get any better standing on the podium and looking over and seeing the other two girls and hearing the national anthem," she said.
The skeletons in the closet matter as much as the honours on the podium, and make better reading.
But if your dream is to reach the podium, you had better be obsessive about your sport.
But it's good for the fans to be on the podium and much better than finishing fourth".
The country's "Own the Podium" slogan sounds better suited to the Canadians' louder, much more populous neighbor to the south than to the name of the five-year program that was developed to make Canada a dominant force at these Games, which run through Feb. 28.
Liberals may have wanted Mr Obama to be their champion, but both strategically and by inclination, Mr Obama doesn't belong down in the lists, breaking lances and smashing heads; he's better off up on the podium trying to maintain some sovereign dignity.
If Forza is a horsepower-popping Ferrari, Project CARS is the Caterham of its genre – only without any of the controversy, hopefully none of the administration, and actually possessing a much better chance of making a podium or three.
"But being on the top of the podium is always far better".
They also surely figured that his emotional presence on the podium would make for better television.
By April, as his primary wins piled up, Mr. Romney's podium message read: A Better America Begins Tonight.
