policy ideas. i ended up talking to him about that. he wants to be in the center of kind of republican thought and sort of the movement, where republicans go next. and jeb bush very much does not want republicans to go in the direction of charlie crist, toward the center. he wants to sort of preserve a very strong, conservative party. i think he s trying to influence that debate. and part of that influencing is of course criticizing obama, stressing a more conservative alternative to obama. let me think about this in personal terms. alex, it seems to me that a common sense person will say that sarah palin s unprepared to be president at this point, will probably be unprepared in two years given she won t have any more public government experience in that time. she quit the governorship of alaska. she s very attractive in terms of her campaigning ability but no strength as a governing record. and you have jeb bush who may have strength as a governing record but not a great campaigner.