themselves leader of the republican party. i just wonder how much -- how many grassroots americans believe that an individual who blurted out the truth, that he sort of backtracked on, should be kicked out of office because of that. the majority of the american people agree with what he said. now, this whole thing, and i think ed distorted this a bit about what chairman steele said about this being obama's war. this is sort of like nixon in 1968 saying, this is nixon's war, vietnam war, and he went on and managed that war and 30,000 more americans were killed. so, yes, yes, i think it is obama's war, because he has called this the good war and he fought for more troops over there and the war is going badly. we had a worst month in june -- >> let's break this down. first of all, you have said this previously. you came out defending michael steele, so i'm curious, have you spoken with him or had any contact with him? >> no, no, i haven't.