the tea party, to get out of the pack and rise up to be the alternative to romney, and, romney, he has been focused on putting together the massive infrastructure that will take to actually be a national candidate, when it comes time for the all of the contests so begin so he is doing what he has to do at this point. >>trace: you say it is time but people will say, yes, it is time and now the polls from iowa and south carolina, gingrich is skyrocketing in the polls and this has to be scary information for the romney campaign. look at the south carolina g.o.p. primary, 38 percent for gingrich and 21 percent for romney and in iowa, we are four weeks away, and you have gingrich up 33 percent to romney's 18 percent that's a little chilling for romney and the rest of the field. >> it is, but gingrich, speaker gingrich has to leverage that popularity into actual votes and up to this point he has run a