ruth marcus. this is what some might commonly call a catfight. >> if the cats were of a different gender, they might. and as i was -- first of all it was kind of a nice line. boom. but think about if it had been two women politicians talking to each other that way. or even one male talking about a woman's glasses. only men can get away with that kind of thing, i think. >> but the realan taganism is that rand paul is gaining a lot of weight as the most active republican on the preprimary, pre-election phase. and the one sort of draw back he has among traditional republicans is the isolationist aspect of his foreign policy. >> you know, it is among traditional republicans a draw back but it may be very much in keeping with the set of voters that he is appealing to.