. -- god om -- one more time, you will not be making the ride home.avis: situate this miniseries in your overall body of work. >> i am probably -- when you boil me down, i am quintessentially an american actor. i mean, i am a baseball bat. i am the cowboy guy. i have tried to do a lot of and a loth the jfk's of different movies, but i am about as american as you can get in terms of how i -- the films i have done. tavis: i take that point. most of your fans would agree with that. you are americana personified in terms of the theater. the question is, was that by choice or by chance? >> i feel really lucky about how everything has come down for me. i was going down the road of what am i going to do in my life? i come from a blue-collar background and you go to school and get married and do all that. by the time your 21, if you have not done some of that stuff, you are kind of old. i did that. i fell into that. that is what i was. i come from a very conservative, a baptist background. it served me well. i had to open my eyes to actually see the world. br

om bam obama? you don't want to mix those two up. >> that's for sure. >> well, as long as you don't call me michelle bachmann myself. >> you are another michelle. my god going to use her, michelle bachmann and santorum for that matter when they both said such negative things about mitt romney. >> this is going to be the problem for mitt romney with everyone he ran against this election term. it was such a brutal and nasty primary season in the republican party. and, you know, you now see all of his former colleagues coming in and subtling or tepidly endorsing him. and i assume it's because they feel like they don't have any choice. but i don't know how he uses them effectively because we have all of their own words that you know are going to show up in campaign ads, used either by the dnc or the obama administration or super p.a.c.s that are in favor of an obama administration, and i mean, quite frankly, tying him to -- to the -- tying the massachusetts health care plan to quote/unquote obamacare, particularly ther this summer when we know the supreme court is going to make a decision on the constitutionality of the patient protection and affordable c