moderation can impell republicans to stay home rather than vote as we saw in the disastrous 2006 and 2008 elections. gop voters are angry at our elected officials for increasing spend, growing entitlements. they repaid them by refusing to vote. conventional wisdom is you can't go with a conservative candidate on the republican side because they won't win the general election but is that argument really turned around? might they do better? might they get more people enthusiastic with a more conservative nominee? >> that's a great point. voters may be outthinking themselves in "the des moines register" poll on sunday, when you drilled down into the numbers and looked why they chose particular candidates, electability is why mitt romney did well. tonight and in the general election, intensity, having people passionate for him. chris, yesterday i went to rallies for mitt romney, ron