right than they were when independents elected barack obama. >> bill: let me get specific with you. all right? you are a conservative republican, right? >> i'm conservative, yes. >> bill: carl paladino. >> right. >> bill: you pull a lever for carl? you vote for him? >> yeah. i would veto for the republican in that race. >> bill: no matter who it was? >> a lot of the tea party folks so tea party folks and somebody who sun orthodox candidates like carl paladino a businessman from buffalo certainly he has things going for him because he is not the incumbent guy and from a political die nasty. can you be a political candidate without shooting yourself in the foot. which i think is what some folks have managed to do. does that mean that they are necessarily not going to win? no the climate is so good for republicans right now you can make that argument that you are a genuine guy and going to shake things up even if you are making missteps. in new york right now you have got gillibrand under 50% approval which is a far more historically democratically reliable seat in the senate.