Now, having said that, it did cost him politically, no doubt about it. i do not think we lost the race because i think ross perot -- >> we will never know, will we? what we do know is that the former president probably did not see the rage that he would get from republicans on the and then again and again that would be on a loop to kill him on the campaign program. a little look at history there. do you think in retrospect, chad, it undid the whole thing? >> it is one of the things that is key to the bush presidency. and you know the end of the week here we will be dealing with funding the gov...