conservative. so conservative today as opposed to being a republican? dichotomize it. well sort of a fight define that. we just talked about maine, austrian economics. hard money, go back to the gold standard. let s abolish the fed economics. that s not what used to be what the conservatives believe, it s just that the people with the most energy in the base are ron paul activists, dick you know supporters of dick armey, people who listen to glenn beck and they re redefining what it is to be a conservative right now so the republicans are being led by it. joan on the progressive side. even though people don t like john boehner and don t know these guys like mitch mcconnell are, they re going to go into that voting booth with the conservative antiliberal, antiprogressive attitude and they re going to vote republican and that s why i think the house could go republican this fall. not because they like republicans, they d never liked john boehner nationally to anything. no. or
fond of olympia snowe and have not been active. let me go to joan. highly independent. they like people who are basically independent minded, really classic yankees, if you will. down easterners. we didn t think of that as right-wing territory before. i m not sure it. it is a very independent state. i would give a slightly different answer from dave s and although he s the expert on the tea party. i think it s bottom up with a lot of help from top down and i think that the club for growth and our friend dick aerm s freedom work are putting a lot of money into helping these people do what they do but you know, chris, you ve really got to look at this new maine tea party platform. i mean it s crack pot. it commits the state of maine to doing everything it can to defeat the u.n. rights of the child treaty, which is about sex trafficking and child labor. nothing really objectionable in there. it puts them on the side of the tenthers. the people who say the tenth amendment would prevent