know, this segment of the gop is now split in half and half of it is, you know, ron paul and half of it is represented by rick santorum. i think that you find that, you know, that libertarian portion of the gop is smaller than a lot of people think it is. not that much smaller in iowa. well, iowa 25, 25, 21. iowa, well, keep in mind, the iowa vote wasn t just republicans voting. okay? so those weren t republicans voting for ron paul? you had independents who signed up to vote in the republican primary. you ll see the same thing in new hampshire. you cannot take the open primaries and say that s a reflection your reaction to this thesis is you really should not count the ron paul people. no, no, i m not saying that at all. you re saying that s only a tiny sliver of the republican you re trying to say there s a one for one equality that, you know, that the party is so split in half that you have half the folks on this side of the room
is, you know, ron paul and half of it is represented by rick santorum. i think that you find that, you know, that libertarian portion of the gop is smaller than a lot of people think it is. not that much smaller in iowa. well, iowa 25, 25, 21. iowa, well, keep in mind, the iowa vote wasn t just republicans voting. okay? so those weren t republicans voting for ron paul? you had independents who signed up to vote in the republican primary. you ll see the same thing in new hampshire. you cannot take the open primaries and say that s a reflection your reaction to this thesis is you really should not count the ron paul people. no, no, i m not saying that at all. you re saying that s only a tiny sliver of the republican you re trying to say there s a one for one equality that, you know, that the party is so split in half that you have half the folks on this side of the room and half the folks on this side of the room. it s not that way. there are points of disagre
have. if we re going to do that. i have to ask you about rick santorum versus ron paul here. don t you think they re sort of opposites? aside from abortion. they sort of represent every opposites in policy. they do. they do represent opposites. you know, the second point that i was going to disagree with you slightly on is i would not see that there s this level of equality in saying that, you know, this segment of the gop is now split in half and half of it is, you know, ron paul and half of it is represented by rick santorum. i think that you find that, you know, that libertarian portion of the gop is smaller than a lot of people think it is. not that much smaller in iowa. well, iowa 25, 25, 21. iowa, well, keep in mind, the iowa vote wasn t just republicans voting. okay? so those weren t republicans voting for ron paul? you had independents who
is, you know, ron paul and half of it is represented by rick santorum. i think that you find that, you know, that libertarian portion of the gop is smaller than a lot of people think it is. not that much smaller in iowa. well, iowa 25, 25, 21. iowa, well, keep in mind, the iowa vote wasn t just republicans voting. okay? so those weren t republicans voting for ron paul? you had independents who signed up to vote in the republican primary. you ll see the same thing in new hampshire. you cannot take the open primaries and say that s a reflection your reaction to this thesis is you really should not count the ron paul people. no, no, i m not saying that at all. you re saying that s only a tiny sliver of the republican you re trying to say there s a one for one equality that, you know, that the party is so split in half that you have half the folks on this side of the room and half the folks on this side of the room. it s not that way. there are points of disagre
i think that you find that, you know, that libertarian portion of the gop is smaller than a lot of people think it is. not that much smaller in iowa. well, iowa 25, 25, 21. iowa, well, keep in mind, the iowa vote wasn t just republicans voting. okay? so those weren t republicans voting for ron paul? you had independents who signed up to vote in the republican primary. you ll see the same thing in new hampshire. you cannot take the open primaries and say that s a reflection your reaction to this thesis is you really should not count the ron paul people. no, no, i m not saying that at all. you re saying that s only a tiny sliver of the republican you re trying to say there s a one for one equality that, you know, that the party is so split in half that you have half the folks on this side of the room and half the folks on this side of the room. it s not that way. there are points of disagreement without a doubt. as you pointed out, there are also areas where t