morning. i want her to run. michele bachmann, the more the better. >> i don't have a lot of confidence in my hunch. my hunch is she will not run. but if she does, she will be competitive. on the other hand, the republican primary voters really want to win the general election. >> if she runs, for all practical purposes a race between her and romney? >> no, i don't think so. >> her former boss newt? >> i think newt is going to be in it. i think he is going to be in it well into the next spring. he's got a mountain to climb. he has climbed mountains like that before. we have to -- i think there are other candidates who could rise. we don't know we have the whole field yet. so i think she is very competitive. but it's hardly just her or romney. >> if she does run. that's the huge if. and if she gets the republican nomination, would there be a third party candidate, a michael bloomberg who would then throw his hat in the ring, and who knows what that would do? >> that's a democratic fantasy to have a three-way party.