about his capacity for higher office. >> picking those bush advisors and being a governor from texas after the last republican governor from texas, would that put the republican party in the position of finally sort of having to reckon with the legacy of george w. bush and the bush economy and whether or not they like it or they were going to keep running from it the way they have for the last couple of cycles? >> george w. who? what legacy? they have spent three years running away from george w. bush's legacy as fast and hard as they can. because after all, they denounced him as not a real republican. you know, he ran up the deficit. and he got us in all these foreign involvements. the tea party people are suspicious about. in fact, a lot of tea party people don't like the patriot act and all that stuff he did. so, look, the last thing republicans want is for people to look at their candidate and see george w. bush ii.