republicans blame -- excuse me, blame ron paul for losing the election against barack obama, then most libertarians consider the more politically talented of the two. >> yeah, i'm sure. i'm sure. i'm sure ron paul would feel he's going to pull himself up by his boot straps. but there was actually a moment tonight where there was a hoax that went out about gary johnson. that gary johnson had quit his libertarian run and was going to endorse ron paul. >> see, a very weird hoax. >> the only thing i can imagine is somebody may have done it to try and get some more delegates in iowa. i'm not sure. but for whatever the reason, at that moment, it was almost palpable, the sense that ron paul is going to go and ron is a libertarian candidate. you can almost feel that twchil through twitter. but i did think that -- i think