I could understand one taking the line that he doesn’t care to succeed him, but to take the line that he specifically wants an opponent to succeed him doens’t make sense, because then your successor will be defining himself as right and you as wrong. Partisans would agree.
It makes perfect sense if you try to grasp what I’m telling you that the man is a Trojan Horse Democrat. We’ve had an epidemic of these types invading the GOP and maximizing damage from within the party and causing our fortunes to die in state by state over the past quarter-century. People like him, Weld, Whitman, Ryan, Wilson, Ah-nold, et al.