politics. governor rick perry has taken a swing or two at each other, that may be what he has going for him is the fact that the republicans don't seem to have a dazzler. >> well, look, we didn't look like we had a dazz fleer 1979, either. jimmy carter went down to defeat. i am absolutely confident that at the end of the day, the republican primary process will nominate somebody who can beat president obama. today, he is losing to romney in the real clear politics polls and a generic republican in the real clear politics average of polls. none of these republicans are as well known or seen as sharply and crisply as the president is. the president's in bad shape today. have you touched on an essential truth. he can't win by running for re-election on the great stimulus program, the spending, the deficit and the doubt he has run up or the affordable care --