go where talking points won't go. i don't see an outcome which would really disturb mitt romney's position in the race as the man to beat. no outcome that i can envision would really do that. if he wins he wins. that helps him. if ron paul wins that's sort of a nullity. he is not going anywhere. if rick santorum who is surging now wins, he could be with us a while but, you know, romney has the pace of the campaign quickens now. have you got a lot of states that you have to campaign at once. you need organization. you need money, you need advertising and a lot of things and it's hard to get on the strength of a single state's victory. >> bill: all right. >> right. >> bill: ron paul, do you agree with me that it's basically, look, the republic party, no matter what happens in the caucuses and what happens in the primaries they know that they would get murdered by the democratic party. >> oh, yeah. >> bill: they are not going to do it and that's that. >> he will be around for a while.