unacceptable, it's unamerican, stop talking like that. he says sort of like mao in the old days. let a thousand flowers bloom. anybody has an opinion, they're all valid. let's listen to them. >> i think that's part of the problem. a lot of them is fear of them. they're scared to death of that base. they don't want to get on the wrong side of it. >> these wack jobs waving certificates and flags. >> because when you get back home in that environment and that pressure cooker starts to build around your support of the president or saying something nice about the president which what makes john mccain stand out all the more. in the heat of a presidential debate and battle he was willing to say no, this man is a decent human being who is an american citizen i just happen to disagree with. which is the approach i think if the party leadership took, if a lot of these folks would take, people would resonate to that, because then it's not personal. but when you personalize it the way they have, the reality changes for them. >> i can imagine, again, i'm not an african-american, but the