i saw that. therein lies the great challenge for mitt romney to say i m the true blue conservative leader. and again, that s the question harold is asking. how does the base make its decisions? do they make it on conservativeness? or do they make it on ability to win? that s one of the questions they ll have to answer. i understand joe s point about conservative versus nonconservative, or the moderate versus the conservative. but if you think about george w. bush in 2000, he ran his campaign on being a compassionate conservative, not leaving any child behind. so he tried to position himself as that. on the second note, that ron paul, one of the reasons he s been so consistent in the polls, i was with a prominent republican yesterday that outlined the thesis that each of the candidates have to have. ron paul has been the one candidate with the most consistent thesis throughout. he s a libertarian, a proud one, taken on the fed, certain policies, he s not wavered at