person who wins will be so beholden to the tea party that they'll lose 40 states. >> why doesn't the president begin an attack to his people? they're afraid that she can beat them in the end? >> good question. >> that's what johnson did to nixon. build them up. >> look at how well that worked out. >> it didn't work out too well. johnson had to leave and nixon won. >> i love talking to people who know their history. so do we agree the fight has begun between the regular republican party and the zoo stream, if you will, as they would see it. your thoughts, mark? that's the way they look at them. they look at them as the slow kids in the class. >> there is a -- there is a cultural and psychological divide that i think they will not bridge perfectly. they'll bridge enough to do smashingly well in the mid terms. the peril for them is if they don't have leaders who can negotiate not just for 2012 but having governed a co-equal branch that, is a real challenge. and right now, all they do, for the most part, is cast out to