careful where they stand on their policies if they do want a long-term national platform. we re still seeing those republicans, if we re talking about republicans, more afraid of either tea party or right-wing challengers than of liberal democrats that they might have to face down the road. but i think what they re doing is this is what happened with the romney campaign. the romney campaign was running as if they had a tea party backing and they were going to have major turnout. again, the conservative media platform is just not backing them anymore. they keep and this is the same thing with cruz. they keep making these calculations that they re in a different time. where the rest of the country is not. i remember i was in virginia on election day last fall. i remember talking to republicans that day. what it would really come down to, they were very friendly about this. there wasn t any maliceness. the black voters who turned up in 2008 are not going to come out today. i wan