is it bob mcdonnell and virginia? or is it sarah palin and 2012? there is a process where republicans have to decide what is the way back? >> i know for myself i very much believe is in the role of bob mcdonnell. i don't think it is so clear-cut we could do one or the other. if you look at what he stood for, he was very conservative on all issues. he focused his principles of free market and limited government on the kitchen table issues plaguing virginia voters and began to represent a leader that could deliver some results. >> there is a broader problem that is a trend with a disgruntled oppositionist right -- we have the uk independence party opposed to europe. australia has had the opposition conservative party just allis its leader for supporting climate change. we have one in italy and here we have glenn beck and rush limbaugh. it seems like there is a clear and turmoil on the right -- there is a clear turmoil. >> there are a lot of voices in both parties and there is a different motive in terms of those in the media than those of us who owe

is it bob mcdonnell and virginia? or is it sarah palin and 2012? there is a process where republicans have to decide what is the way back? >> i know for myself i very much believe is in the role of bob mcdonnell. i don't think it is so clear-cut we could do one or the other. if you look at what he stood for, he was very conservative on all issues. he focused his principles of free market and limited government on the kitchen table issues plaguing virginia voters and began to represent a leader that could deliver some results. >> there is a broader problem that is a trend with a disgruntled oppositionist right -- we have the uk independence party opposed to europe. australia has had the opposition conservative party just allis its leader for supporting climate change. we have one in italy and here we have glenn beck and rush limbaugh. it seems like there is a clear and turmoil on the right -- there is a clear turmoil. >> there are a lot of voices in both parties and there is a different motive in terms of those in the media than those of us who owe

host: on the republican side, bob mcdonnell wins the bowl for congressional and political insiders.of the more interesting findings in the survey. here you've got someone who has not offered for past or enacted a big piece of legislation. not talking about a political figure who forced the issue to the forefront of the national consciousness. we are talking about someone who won an off-year election. but what i think republicans are looking for is the future and with bob mcdonnell, it is hair -- where and how he won the election that impresses them, he won it in virginia, a swing state that president obama carried in the presidential election, and he also won it in part by winning the votes of independent voters by a margin of 221 over his democrat opponents. democrats are looking at that qana performance as saying, if we could only replicate that in a lot of states and swing congressional districts in midterm elections in 2010, we may go along way getting back into power. so i think it looking at mcdonnell, they see the future, looking at the political formula, the political tricky