comparing him to the, you know, exquisite humanity of president bush 41. but i think that this hunger for romney alternative has become almost a pathology in the republican -- it's become a sickness. and i thought it was very unhealthy for the party of our process when we were hungering over all of these guys with no interest in running. governor christie who i think is tremendous, but never showed any leg or seriously flirted with the idea, i don't think. jeb bush said all along he's not ready. we've had an unhealthy obsession with the romney alternative for two years now. and it's manifesting itself in santorum's success. >> you would have thought it would have ended with santorum's spiral down. >> but unhealthy obsessions never end in a pretty way. they never end pretty. and this isn't going to end pretty. and there's going to be noise and i think the media will pay too much attention to it all