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Case for himself and his vision of the country. jon: let's talk about those vp choices. interesting that marco rubio is the first on the list, not necessarily first -- the first choice but the first on the list whose campaigning -- who's campaign wg governor romney. >> reporter: rubio has been a favorite. he's been rumored to be on the short list, on everybody's short list for a long time now. he obviously brings a lot. i mean, he's from florida, he's a favorite of the tea party, he would excite the base, he's an election electrifg speaker, so there's a lot of positives going for him. the down...

Candidates and rather than fill the screen, let's ask you guys to choose your top four. >> i've got the short list. this is it. marco rubio, paul ryan, mitch daniels. marco rubio is eloquent and gives good speeches. paul ryan is the ideas guy, mitch daniels has been a successful governor, 70% approval and ron portman is a safe pick. he would help in ohio. >> smart and conservative. >> i have the same top two as steve, rubio and ryan. >> you're very wise. >> i knew i couldn't cross steve. >> marco rubio would add a lot. all four are from swing states. if it women gender gap thing proves to go s...

President obama's decision to go with a safe pick. that might turn out to be savvy but that's the direction he went in and we'll see what a lot of people don't know in the country whether they are progressives or conservatives is how progressive she is because they doesn't have a record and people are concerned she'll be to the right of the retiring justice stevens. justice stevens came in as one of the most conservative justices saying his position didn't change at all and winds up leaving as one of the most liberal justices. you see how the spectrum has shifted in court history and now we've...

Footy fenews, that's just remarkable. >> footy news? >> world football, that's what i'm going to call it. it's not soccer. with us chief political correspondent for politico, mike allen, who's here with the "morning playbook" and i guess we should start with elena kagan, who looks like a safe pick but why is politico reporting she could have a bumpy ride? >> she's probably a safe pick. republicans don't have enough vote to stop her. we're predicting 65 votes to confirm her. republicans want to make it, as you suggest, a bumpy ride. republicans don't want president obama to are the excitement...

Consider bob bennett one of the most conservative members of the u.s. senate, too liberal goes to show how extreme the tea party is, what do you make of that. >> he's obviously got to try to put the worst face on it. the fact is that the tea party very much wants to shake up the republican establishment and made no bones about it and they don't like certainly a lot of the democrats and also, even some republicans, we saw this with charlie crist in florida. we're seeing it now with bob bennett in utah. as i say, no republican incumbent is safe this year, because of the fact that there's a kind ...