and my view, human issues, in much the way you describe them. at the time, people like vin webber and wit errors, the pollster and peggy noonan said, oh, this will all die down and people will forget, and particularly if rick santorum, the hardest line guy on these issues in the praerps is gone, everyone will forget. but it keeps popping up because this is actually the policy of the party. now they're hoping akin will go away just as they hoped limbaugh would lower his slut language and the rest of this, but this is the party. if mcdonnell tries to fool with this hard line language, it will just put it more in the spotlight because the real base of the party that supports people like akin will complain and scream and yell about it. >> and fight it. how we got here is interesting and where we're going is interesting. how we got here i think is the party falling apart and the conservative movement, which has