meetchum is saying if this is our year, who is the our? that was the republican party going in a new direction, influenced by the tea party, talking about what you were just discussing which is dealing with the debt and government spending. it was also about bucking the establishment in washington including the republican leadership. and for rick santorum to make the case that he s so principled on issues like the bailout, if he was that principled about national education reform, no small matter. i mean this wasn t a technical vote. this wasn t an amendment. this was a big effort by the president of the united states. i mean people will argue with him about whether it was worth compromising principles about. i think romney did leap all over that yesterday. to say, you know, that notion of how many times did he compromise his principles? and that s an area, by the way, as we know that romney s challenged as well. exactly. he is challenged as well