but it really has embaldened romney. you can see during the debate perry almost feeling like, who are these people? how dare they question me? >> my advisers never told me this was going to happen. >> he's getting more like he's running "meet the press." i mean, because romney has now become the guy who says, let's take a look at what you said here. let's take a look at what you said said a year ago on social security. and this guy's now got to defend it against a fellow republican. >> rick perry was a good prospect. but now it's like, welcome to the majors. and you remember the movie "bull durham" you get the sense that mitt romney wants to call, hey, this is how we do it here. you haven't been around the last few months but you're going to have to answer this and deal with bad news. because guess what? he is a functioning governor. rid mommy is not responsible for anything now except his own campaign. on death penalty issues. on the environment, on the economy, whatever he does in texas, in the next few months is going