and you know, i can say having served ron brown and worked for his campaign to become the first african-american chairman of the democratic party or of any national party, that michael steele is no ron brown in getting the party ready for the midterms. rick: matt, i just have to ask you, maybe you have some behind the scenes information that you could share with us, because i would have to imagine that there are some republicans who are in talks with michael steele right now, as we all speak here on fox, you know, and that some of them might be saying it's time to go, michael, time to hang it up, and yet, we watched the sunday shows and we showed a clip, you know, prior to introducing you gentlemen t. seems like a lot of republicans at least on television in public are kind of going easy on him. >> well, the problem is that it doesn't help republicans to engage in a sort of messy coup right now. again, realistically speaking, it's very difficult to oust a chairman of the rnc, and attempting