obama and didn't because they felt the party was too far right. mitch daniel, jeb bush and chris christie. all three of them looked at what was going on at the end of 2011 and said, really, do i want to get in the middle of a fight with guys like herman cain and possibly sarah palin? am i really going to engage in that type of debate? so it's not just the people we had out there, arianna, that really just shattered the republican brand at the primary process, it's the strong leaders that stayed away because of their fear of being dragged down into a mud pit. >> also those we don't know about, people staying away from politics simply because they don't want to be dragged into what politics has become. also the issues they picked. debating contraception in 2012 was not going to be a winning issue. they had a winning issue, the fate of the middle class.