the back and forth, the ugly ads, all of this is fodder that's been fed to the democrats and that will get replayed against the eventual nominee this fall. so, yeah. i think george will is saying, look. everybody needs to start taking a look at this thing and seeing that at some point, we may have to re-evaluate what the real priority is going to be for november. and so we have time to do that. in other words, let's get it right now, but if we continue down this path, and i agree 100% with him, we might as well focus on something else because this particular goal becomes that much more difficult to attain. >> now richard, i read a lot of endorsements in my career. i've been out here a long time. but let me read to you the "seattle times." they endorsed willard mitt romney officially. sort of. with the headline, washington's gop caucus default choice, mitt romney. that's how they headlined the endorsement. and they say in the endorsement, romney has been his own biggest