Thanks. Your version is very clear. I’ll bet hearing Fred say this was really funny.
On paper, it was hard to tell how he meant it - and then the writer implied that that was why he would make a great president.
Maybe - Aristotle said that a gift for metaphor is a sign of genius.
Your welcome. The use of metaphor is probably a Tennessee cultural trait from Thompson’s childhood. I don’t think kids in the south speak this way much anymore. TV is killing regional accents, dialects and speech patterns, and replacing them with a Los Angeles drab. He is from a dying era.