that s a question, howard, as a journalist, do you have a sense they re looking at this field as sort of the spring list. but there s going to be a fall list. yeah, i think that s possible. and i think fred barnes is as good an authority on what is acceptable within the conservative, you know, establishment mainstream as there is. and fred doesn t like what he sees so far and he wants to look for other players later on. you know, the conservators are going to have to look for somebody they can sell to those independent voters as you were saying, chris, and as ron was saying. and a lot of these characters for various reasons won t do it. michelle bauchmann, how strong she could be in iowa. there s no way she could be a general election candidate. there s just no way, just no way, no way. let me ask go ahead, i m sorry, ron. let me ask you guys. if romney or pawlenty, one of the more standard republicans doesn t get traction in the early primaries, do you think that the republi