debate about taking our troops out of iraq in the middle of the chaos, in the middle of the surge and john mccain, in a move you don't see often in politics staked his campaign and said i believe in this to the degree i would rather lose the election than see this country lose a war in his view. i think that had enormous currency in the republican primary. >> the inauthenticity problem you say carries forward to 2012, i feel like the attacks on mitt romney are partly in that same vein, partly like you saw in 2008, he's a flip-flopper. is there something else that has emerged as a weakness for him or do you think that is still his achilles heal? >> if you analogize this to a football game he's a quarterback this week who has shown a propensity to throw a lot of