to the russian president. he said he didn t have to worry about constitutional requirements, governor? flexibility. the whole idea of our government is the checks and balances of three branches with equal power not somebody who believes he can ignore the law and put in what he wishes to do. chris: kirsten, when one party is holding a convention traditionally the other goes off the stage and takes a week off but the democrats nort aret going to be doing this. barack obama on some college campuses and joe biden was until the weather hit going to be down here in florida and michelle obama making a bunch of high profile appearances. smart politics? definitely. i think they he always do some of counter programming. the only thing that was outside kind of the normal behavior would have been biden coming down here. they are trying define romney in the period where they still feel he is unknown and trying to define him as this extremist and radical and continue to use the todd akin t