republicans also have a divided base. the political people in the republican party, the hogan gidleys of the world understand they have to move on immigration. but their base has been taught a very different lesson for a long time and it s a lot harder to quiet the conservative activists who are just angry that the party won t just double down on conservative principles. i think the president is pursuing i think a smart strategy. it s different from what he did his first term where he went one issue at a time and sort of seated the public fight over it to the right where the tea party came in on health care reform. this time he s flooding the zone. they re pushing out so many issues so often that the republican party isn t having an opportunity to deal with any one of them in a coherent way and they re just letting the republicans fight. their own defense all the time. go ahead. i ll give do you last word. real quickly, marco rubio is a great example, very conservative, but very pr