and the timing of it is obvious, because changing the subject, let's not talk about baynin.e way, conversation was a subject changer from the jobs report a week ago. let's just be fair. we're changing subjects away from the things that hold real substance. >> those two are at least related, because mitt romney, of course, is running on the fact he can create more jobs. when the job report comes out, that makes sense to me. the con di cdi conversation doe make sense. >> when you look at rice, she's very tied to the bush administration, and it's not likely that romney wants to be very associated with things that rice was very involved in in terms of the invasion of iraq, weapons of mass destruction, obviously the abortion issue is huge here. let's talk about other possible running mates, okay? rob portman of ohio, what about bob mcdonald of virginia, the two key states here. what do you think, lz, of either of those names? >> i've been having a really difficult time. when i saw the question, i had a difficult time trying to find somebody that made sense to me. that's because m