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>> i don't think so. we have an incredible bench of leadership ready. a great group of people that will step into this role. i think it will seem very seamless. i think the leadership and this republican party shares the same goals with paul ryan. i think it really comes down to the local level. what is your representative. how is the representatives relationship with your own con stit -- constituents. i think the people lekked me and what i stood for. they respect paul ryan. he's been a great face for the republican party. we'll move on. it doesn't end when president bush finished his preside...

-- spectacles. how can you tell who is a protester and who is a con stit -- constituent with real concerns? for people, it can be life or death. >> yeah, absolutely. for a senatorial town hall, it is a finer line. anybody in the state of louisiana is a constituent. we have people coming from some of the conservative parishes in northern louisiana and folks coming up from new orleans to air their concerns. there's probably half a dozen committed protesters sort of out in front of this event. the folks inside seem to have, you know, fairly legitimate questions about things like medicaid. in part...

I agree with you about his track record in florida. he was the only one on the stage last night who can demonstrate eight years worth of results for the people of his state. frankly, as you know, there's a mess in washington right now. it starts at the top. barack obama and the policies that have been put into place and then the situation in congress have just left the american people out and jeb bush really is the only one with the resume and with the policies and know how to get to work to fix that mess. so again, i think that we're going to see eight more of these debates. three months unti...

Say, not the interfacing with the troops, but everything he had to say to the nation could have been said from the oval office. and certainly the agreement signed with president car zil, that didn't need the president to travel to afghanistan in person to do it. what you are doing, the president is above all things, he's a symbol and an actor. he's a leader too, but you make him a visual symbol. that makes him powerful and also what makes him vulnerable because he becomes a target for everything. what we see in the obama presidency we see in my book is that the -- the personality of the presid...