movement. what is going on there? >> senator mccain is seen as a moderate republican. the tea party are getting out there, doing the activism. they are stronger conservatives than he has a record of being. where is he going to get the natural tie to somebody that will bring in that conservative base? he is going back to his former running buddy and hope he can get some of that momentum she brings to the table. >> is sarah palin becoming more powerful as a proponent of other candidates, a prepooponent of a movement she might have been running for office or is she setting the stage to once again running for office? >> i don't know how effective she would be running for office. most of the speech was around conservative rhetoric and not talking specifically to solutions. it plays well with tea parties. it doesn't necessarily play very well to debates. if you go back to the issue in 2008 it was her record in alaska and moving forward with the interviews and debates where she