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Back, what would it have been, five, four, three, none? what would you have given the taliban, or would you have given them nothing? >> that is a question, a hypothetical, you really can't answer. >> it's the question the president had to answer himself. >> right right, but chris, the deal that he took, the deal he took, you had panetta and clinton and others that already said do not do this. >> we said that on the show. what would you do? >> i don't know. you never know what you're going to do in a given situation. you do know that five for one and what we have learned causes tremendous conce...

And certainly nixon couldn't have made it because he had ideas and we might have made it but i doubt it. i mean -- >> chris: too moderate. too willing to compromise? >> i just considered myself a republican. on this of this hyphenated stuff. >> chris: what he is saying is that the republican party basically has moved out of the mainstream? >> you know what, look, he is a hero in this country and we all love bob dole but the reality is if you look at the last two nominees, mitt romney and john mccain i think that is a pretty good counter position to what senator dole had to say. i think we have...

And certainly nixon couldn't have made it because he had ideas and we might have made it but i doubt it. i mean -- >> chris: too moderate. too willing to compromise? >> i just considered myself a republican. on this of this hyphenated stuff. >> chris: what he is saying is that the republican party basically has moved out of the mainstream? >> you know what, look, he is a hero in this country and we all love bob dole but the reality is if you look at the last two nominees, mitt romney and john mccain i think that is a pretty good counter position to what senator dole had to say. i think we have...

Counter position to biden, there's really nothing there. i think they will shift to broader, bigger themes, but you can see the kernels in both of these of what they would be saying. president obama saying we've come too far to turn back, and governor romney saying it's not good enough. you'd be foolish not to change course. those are the nutshells of the arguments. they have been building up for the last six to nine months. over the course of the next few weeks, we will be hearing those in much clearer and starker terms than we've heard before. >> you know, a lot of elections turn on the very...

The romney ad is even further away from a closing argument in the sense that i think it's a typical or characteristic of them. it's a very tactical ad in the sense it's kind of trying to play on just on the joe biden performance. that ad only works because of biden's facial expressions. if you just had paul ryan saying what he's saying without the counter position to biden, there's really nothing there. i think they will shift to broader, bigger themes, but you can see the kernels in both of these of what they would be saying. president obama saying we've come too far to turn back, and governo...