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We're not so visible to the press. >> you were in the previous segment you were expressing a lot of disgust with, i guess, the republican leadership and the republicans who may be aren't as committed to the conservative principals as you define them and that sort of has been what's animated the tea party has been this frustration with the quote/unquote republican establishment. this was as much as i always said the tea party movement to me is as much a rebellion against obama and the democrats but also, this internal war with the republican party. when look at mitt romney basically embraced th...

Staggering, no? >> right, actually at this point what we absolutely need to be interpreting those numbers. and i think looking back at the primaries, there may be faults with our primary system. our primary process, but that was not the problem here for the gop. the problem was, that mitt romney latch onto the self-deportation idea and took the hard right tack and he held onto it. it was so unnecessary. it wasn't just like that that he misspoke. this was an idea that he floated out there. and then many steps along the way, even into the general election, when he could have take tn back or reno...

Is useful. these crowds that romney has gathered, especially a late night crowd in colorado, it's a contrast. the obama campaign is going after that base doggedly because they know it's about the battlegrounds and they know suddenly they have an uphill fight in some of the them they weren't expecting. >> and they keep telling us about their advantage in organization. they were out there months and months earlier in terms of opening offices and frankly spending a lot of money on the ground game. but you have to have that basic enthusiasm. i know that, you know, i don't see the yard signs and th...

Disagree with michael about, it stood out from this convention, it was not a unifying thing from the convention in one respect. she was talking about a republican party that's not the republican party we see right now. her talking about immigrants, her appeal to a much more inclusive party, much more party that would be much more welcoming and much more full of brown faces and that is not the party -- that's one of the party's biggest problems. it's not that. she was taking it to the future. that's an appealing message, one republicans would do well to seize on coming out of this convention wh...

Together. bill: that is one impression. give me another one. >> the impression i got, number one, he is open, he recognizes there has to be some healing after this very tough fall primary process and he was very receptive to that. in fact he and his staff know that they have to do some things. secondly, he recognizes that in order to help bring the party together, it is going to have to be built around ideas. i haven't gotten him to embrace 9-9-9 yet but i'm still going to work on it but he has sharpened his message. i think a lot of people have said they have started to see that already. then...