before a single vote is cast is proposterous . that is from santorum s candidate. also the three term governor of new york state. that ain t nothing if you re a republican. do you agree with that analysis? yeah, i do. i just think you have to have everybody in there. i do know this, though. i do know that the debate is going to be so crowded that there actually is some insentive in income the undercard. listen, it won t be like the beatles. you won t have tens of millions of people watching. it s the clips the next day. you ll have more oxygen at the earlier debate to get a punch in here, to get a punch in there. if you have a great punch, the great rhetorical flourish, it will be on the news the next day and covered. this really does seem to me, mike, one of the things, where you know, you can have an eventual person and say the final four if we want to use the ncaa analogy that wasn t even in