himself to the primary electora electorate. what was clever about what bush did was he said he was a conservative, but a compassionate conservative. it made him sound like a different kind of conservative. that's how he came across to the electric rat. when they use the term "mainstream conservative" they want to say he's conservative, but that's there to also position him as someone who can win. when they turn the obama stuff against him and say he was obama's ambassador to china, he probably will say, no, i was america's ambassador to china, and then he'll use that credential to critique the obama policy. i wouldn't write him off. i don't know whether mark's right or mark's hope will come true that a republican primary electorate can accept someone like this this year. >> mark, let's stay with that point. he thinks giving a big old bear