t.a.r.p. and some of the things that really got the blood boiling among our activists, i think it would be severely noticed. john huntsman, we don't know him well, but we do know that he has a bit of a record of supporting things like t.a.r.p. and so forth. and that's going to always be problematic with our activists. >> is it hurting that he worked for president obama as ambassador to china? >> i would think most people would understand that, a the point he made when the president of the united states calls upon him to serve, he was just in washington, i thought a very good discussion on foreign policy. and the thing that struck me was absolutely zero politics, domestic politics in the discussion. so i think our folks are sophisticated enough to understand that you rise above politics when you're dealing on behalf of your country internationally. >> let me turn you to newt gingrich, because he had such a flamingly awful week. >> yeah. >> having seemed to have just -- almost every republican in the house who voted for ryan budget gingrich seemed to go, no, very bad idea, particularly the