this is picking winners and losers in an economy, not economic liberty which says to me the economy may be important to voters but not free market conservative principles within the economy. >> economic populism can be handled in a few different ways. one is the way ron paul is handling it saying you're freer to make decisions with your money than the government can do for you. or rick santorum economic populism even liberal economic populism. let's go to the tea party and talk about what influence they are having. mark skoda, founder of the memphis tea party. mark, this is a bit of a redefinition of what the tea party has been doing for the republican party movement. at this point we're at a crossroads. where do guys like you fall on this one? do you go along the mitt romney road because he stands the best chance at this point of beating president obama and doing things with taxes that the tea party would like? do you go down ron paul, less government road or economic populist road with somebody like