it has prompted others to rally behind him. the cpac had to lift the impression he is unacceptable to the base and christie may be better positioned to win the republican nomination than he was a year ago as far as that poll of republicans swearing up and down that never vote for him, don't believe it in 2011 gallup found 26% of republicans would definitely not vote for romney who went on to win the nomination. you go on. i agree with you. i thought his reception at cpac was good. i think the fact that you have conservatives on twitter railing against anybody now that says anything negative about chris christie is actually very positive thing. at the end of the day, chris christie, with all of the conservatives running taking up the far right lanes, he needs 25%, 30% to win the early primaries. >> right. i think if you look at recent history and who actually wins republican primaries over the last 30 years, he's in better shape vie vis-a-vis the nominat.