sheshgs may have been caricatured but she handed the press the magic markers. >> that's right. and she was not my cup of tea. what i like the least was her statements. i remember clashing with her on "larry king live" about this that barack obama was born in kenya. she couldn't bring herself to accept the fact that he wasn't. i hate when you differ with the opposition by trying to delegitimatize them. it's one thing to clash on ideology and ideas, it's another to say they're not legitimate. that is not something i thought is constructive in politics. >> charles, you wrote a story about what you call the gop's bachmann problem. specifically you wrote, "people like bachmann represent everything that is wrong with the republican party. she and her colleagues are hyperbolic, reactionary and ill-informed and synonymous with the republican brand." how much does bachmann's exit hurt the democratic party? >> i don't know if it hurts the democratic party. i do think that it takes away a