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Would be. the idea that rick perry would be president, it says george w. bush third term. are there any differences policywise? >> i'm not a fan of either. what i would say is that george w. bush was considerably important moderate than rick perry. bush was not a big fan of abortion but he was not out there promoting and ausing it as a divisive issue. and bush did use gay marriage as a way to get elected on. a personal basis, bush was completely did not care. these are things, perry is much more politically craven than george w. bush ever was. perry will say and do whatever it is necessary for...

Talking about our brand, talking about what we believe, going to community events going to swearing in ceremonies being in the community ongoing paid for by the republican national committee to make the case for our party and candidates. >> he said that he is also -- that he would also like to see a shorter primary process and convention. before you leave the house let's get an update from maria molina. while spring may be just two-days away on the calendar i think that's what it says anyway, you instead are tracking a winter storm. is that right? >> that's right twochlt days away and we have ...

That's a process and those are things that the body will have to buy into ultimately. i think at the end of the day, though, you know, you can have a shortened process. but that's all going to be generated by the number of candidates who are in the primary. whether or not they want to have more debates, it's going to be up to them. the networks and the cable stations going to come to them to put on these debates. as we saw in 2012. they will accept or not accept the idea of moving the convention up. i think is smart and it's something that we talked about at the time for the next round. but ag...

If you have your convention at the end of june or mid-july, you compress the primary process. >> even mitt romney's campaign has said have a such a long and -- battled members. really hurt him in the general election. what will shortening the primary process mean for republicans, david? >> well, craig, i think we all remember the primary process alluded to on the republican side. it wasn't the most glamorous of primaries. there was a lot of sort of misstatements i think, and i don't think the republican party was really proupd of itself, in the way they pick the candidate. although the establi...

Which is why campaigns end. >> at the time, republicans tried to justify the long primary as a way of testing the candidate under fire, but his team says it didn't feel that way. i asked what was the low point, the os moment, if you will, of the campaign and here's what the romney folks said. >> colorado, minnesota and missouri because it was just oh -- it was totally o.s. because we had like -- just like another month of this. >> losing michigan would not have been a positive experience. we went in and it was a very expensive state and a state with a lot of symbolic ghosts, and -- and it was ...