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So you have all these sort of cross-currents going on, all these people fires different arrows at each other. and the person who may come up the strongest in that is mitt romney. you hear a lot of republicans who say, you know what, i guess that it is almost time to make our pick here. he may not be the top in either of the three categories, but adding up all the qualities together, he looks better than a lot of people. i've heard republicans two weeks ago were not for romney, but now they say, okay. >> way back 50 years ago the strategy of jack kennedy was to believe they could pick a preside...

Government in place over there now, he, according to the former staffer, doesn't believe in the state of israel. he believes the arabs should get that land. that's pretty strong stuff, even for libertarians. your thought on that, steve? >> this represents fundamentally what ron paul's problems are in the republican party. this is a hawkish party, especially with regard to the middle east. and the parallel i keep thinking about with ron paul is pat buchanan. the last person on the republican side that really kind of broke through in the republican presidential primaries was the none interventio...

Coors. pete coors of coors beer, ken salazar, now the interior secretary, it was the 2004 senate race in colorado. and it was a debate between these two guys. and salazar is trying to make this point that, you know, pete coors is not one of us. he's not a farmer from the san louis valley like he was, who didn't have lights in his house until 1979. he says, you know, who here is rich? and hardly anybody in the audience raises their hands. pete coors turns to the audience and says, who here would like to be rich? and almost everybody raised their hands. so i think when you look at the population...

Now, he, according to the former staffer, doesn't believe in the state of israel. he believes the arabs should get that land. that's pretty strong stuff, even for libertarians. your thought on that, steve? >> this represents fundamentally what ron paul's problems are in the republican party. this is a hawkish party, especially with regard to the middle east. and the parallel i keep thinking about with ron paul is pat buchanan. the last person on the republican side that really kind of broke through in the republican primaries was buchanan. and i interviewed buchanan last week about the paralle...

Of thing, the modernity, basically. then they want a real hawk, someone who's really going to turn the tables from this globalism of obama and turn it back to the old chauvinism of w. and do they have anybody that meets the bill in all three cases and that could also win? >> no, they have no one who meets the bill in all three cases. which is why you hear, i was out with senator rick santorum earlier, and he was really driving the case hard against ron paul, urging iowa republicans to think seriously his foreign policy plans. so you have all these sort of cross-currents going on, all these peo...