Because if the small handful refuse to be part of the team, you cannot let them hold you hostage and that s what they re doing right now. they don t think we have the wherewithal to do anything without them. we need to show them otherwise. you noted this yesterday, this idea of reaching across the aisle to find a consensus candidate, that is, reaching across to democrats. are there any such talks under way right now with democrats? there are preliminary talks but we don t want to go too fast on this because that then high jacks what kevin is try to do and we want to support kevin, he s worked hard to get this, but if at some point the small handful of folks who refuse to be part of the team after the conference overwhelmingly voted for kevin, if they make it clear that they cannot be team players then we have to look somewhere else. in the end we have to govern. this is about leading the greatest country in the world and we cannot let a small handful of folks that are on the extrem ....