the three major candidates and have the weight of recovering from what ever romney's calls and direct mail notices are. so it's challenging to gets ahead of that. i'm glad we did as well as we did. we keep talking about issues and i think it does matter and i think in the general election if the president is faced with $5 or $6 a gallon gasoline he's going to be in trouble. the economy is going to be dramatic will he weakened. >> bret: last thing, mr. speaker, you're vow to stay in this race. for you? you're sticking to this? >>. >> i am stick toigt, bret. you've noen known me a long time, i'll be in the race. >> bret: mr. speaker, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> bret: we're going to get