everybody on that stage would be a better president than barack obama. i absolutely agree with that. however, i do believe that there are some that would be better than others. and you're not going to get me to say which ones are my preference because of the following dynamics that are very different that be we've seen before. number one, look at what's going on in iowa. 40% of the people aren't sure yet. why? because of the impact of negative advertising. because of the overly high influence of money on campaigns. romney has a money advantage. newt has try to run a very positive campaign. are you calling it a santorum surge. i still happen to believe it is because people are skeptical. skepticism leads to indecision. secondly, iowa nor new hampshire have been total predictors of who the ultimate nominee going to be. what they have done is that they have narrowed the field. that's really going to be the important thing that's coming