vinegar. we saw the tone and rhetoric of his competitor right there not about unifying the party or bringing people together and thad cochran, people like him in his state. he's a nice guy, also been around for a while. >> i'm all for people liking new politics. help me out here. it's a republican primary and you beat me by courting democrats. yes, the law allows it, but isn't there something not kosher about that in. >> the law encourages it, as a matter of fact. saw the same thing in the cantor primary that seems to have thrown so many people off, but the reality is once you change the rules so that anybody can vote, what you really are talking about is a two-stage general election, and, you know, it's not how we do things in new york and not how we do things probably in most states, but if that's what the rules allow? >> dirty pool, even if allowed? >> different strategy, new strategy so instead of going to the extremes you go to the center, and frankly if we had a lot more elections like that we'd probably be better off as a nation. >> that's the point.