course that s right. in 1980, there was the assumption that reagan was too conservative to win the general elections right up until the other factor, steve, i think at play here is that as ex-president, and carter has set the pace for being a great ex-president, he s been essentially a pacifist who s going around the world making peace, supervising elections, curing diseases, doing all kinds of liberal things which are good things that the republicans are trying to make now seem as if somehow discredit that? that it would have been better if he d been playing golf and making money? still added at 89 years old which is something trump didn t get the memo on. jonathan alter author of the center holds. thanks for joining us tonight. thanks, steve. the news, again, we re monitoring throughout the hour is the missing malaysia airlines 777 airline, mh-370 lost contact