despite his problems. look, once someone has the nomination they'll that have demonstrated campaign skills and abilities that will become apirn apparent and they'll become competitive. any field looks small when you want to look at that against incumbent president and when it is one person against one person it is competitive. gregg: let me ask you about another person not in the race, the weekly standard is trying to push paul ryan and others are talking to him, and trying to say, hey, this is your moment. i know you are young. but, boy, you are the guy who could really lead, especially on the fiscal issues that face the nation. how would you handicap him? >> well, it is significant that he decided not to become one of the members of the super committee that is going to be dividing up budget cuts and settling on budget priorities. so, that potentially gives him an opening to run for president. in addition, wisconsin law would allow him to run for president, should he not get the nomination he could go on and run for his