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Them politically. i think they'll want -- low-hanging fruit in the house is gone from 2018. you'll see another half dozen, ten to half a dozen additional retirements and some seats that are competitive now that should not be on paper but democrats are seeing an upsurge on the down ballot races. it's a grim year again for republicans. i say this all the time. presidential re-elections are an incumbent -- referendum on the incumbe incumbent. all these guys who made themselves pilot fish are facing the same problem with that referendum with their campaign. >> rick wilson, you're welcome on this b...

His campaign tonight? >> i don't think he can save it tonight, but i think the path for jeb bush is to show strength by attacking the person who is seen as strong. this is a barroom fight, you walk into the bar, find the biggest guy and you hit him. 350e78 are drawn to the shark, not the pilot fish. you' got to go in there and show strength. i think it's as good for jeb bush to do it. he ought to keep doing it. and you've got to put donald trump under pressure. pressure, pressure, pressure, and see how he responds. you know if you've ever watched twitter, the guy responds to everything. if you...

That is basically, explicitly, the ted cruz strategy at this point, and i think it's a pretty smart one. >> well, look, i think that ted cruz has a couple of really strong assets about his personal conservatism and his record as being a guy who is a very iconicic person in the senate, which means he's hated in the senate. and largely for reasons having to do with launching these shutdown fights without a real plan to win them. just to do them, but right now, he's trying to leverage his position as a very hard conservative, by being donald trump's pilot fish to the great white shark that is dro...

Trump moe jjo. well, rick perry attacked us and he's gone now. those folks on the stage tonight, except for ted cruz, he's the pilot fish to donald trump's shark, none of those folks on the stage tonight were intimidated by donald trump. he seemed smaller. he seemed less poised. he let out with a joke that went over terribly, attacking rand paul. and then george pataki. the first rule of politics, don't punch down. he seemed very petty. >> i've got to say, for anyone who read your article about how to handle trump and watch this debate, you knew the smart candidates read your article. we've go...

I would much prefer to talk about paul simon, but we'll do that next hour. with you let's talk first about the debate that's coming up next wednesday in denver. we're less than a week out from it. mitt romney has to laser focus, one conservative after another going out there, telling him, stop being distracted. have a laser focus on the economy. i want to read you what daniel henninger wrote today in "the wall street journal." he said stupid in the famous quotation from 1992's clinton versus bush campaign, it's the economy, stupid. whoever thinks a u.s. presidential election is about something...