. >> you're the john heilman doing the first important john heilman books. >> look at the result in florida. you can't take any of the straw polls that seriously. the last big straw poll was the iowa straw poll. michele bachmann won that then promptly disappeared from view. she's now considered complete irrelevance in the campaign. herman cain is not going to be the nominee. adam pointed out, it tells you what we've known for a year. this field is a field that is still unsettled. we tried to force this into a box. now we have a two-person race. it's perry and romney. the truth is there are a lot of doubts among conservatives about whether rick perry is ready and showing over and over again he might not be. there have been problems with mitt romney. he has problems with the donor class which doesn't think he can beat barack obama. that's why you see the donor class primaily rising up in unison trying to get chris christie in the race. >> it was as good a weekend in florida as president obama could ask for i think. you have herman cain giving new life. he's going to stay on the debate stage f

also john heilman. a lot to talk about. a grim day here. mika? >> yeah, very. >> very grim. >> awful. >> around these parts. heilman knows what i'm talking about. yesterday. >> yeah, yeah. >> willie, the -- >> what's going on? >> oh, this is arch west. >> arch west slipped the surly bonds of earth. >> i hate to tell you this. >> well, he touched td face of god. >> he actually died a week ago. >> okay. we learned yesterday. >> we learned yesterday. >> this guy, seriously. >> play along. >> the thing is, willie, if patrick moynihan were here today you know what he would say. he would say, you know, we may laugh again, willie geist, but with the passing of the founder of the doritos, we'll never be young again. it's over. >> irony might be dead. is it possible? >> exactly. >> doritos live on. cool ranch rocks the house. >> do you agree? >> oh, yes. willie and i have advanced degrees in nutrition. if you get your classic food pyramid, like back in the 1960s you would actually have doritos right below the top. >> i think that was actually probably the

. >> yeah, john heilman, she's known to not keep staff a whole lot. >> she -- she's -- she has a littlehigh turnover rate. that's true. and that -- those numbers tell you a lot right there. >> isn't that stunning? >> ed rawlings, you could say it's a two-person race. but if you look at michelle bachmann, she's in fourth. you pointed out on the show, she was flavor of the month 60 days ago. >> we have a lot of the flavors. sarah palin in the fall. let's repeat. sarah palin who was unbeatable in the fall. she's the one. >> fall of 2010. >> fall of 2010. we get to the spring, it was donald trump. remember, donald trump led everybody in about three or four polls. and then, the new season of apprentice came out. he got out of the race. then michelle bachmann. we heard she was the flavor of the month. and now we're on to rick perry. >> that was only a month ago michelle bachmann won the straw poll. >> a month ago. >> names, we hardly knew ye. >> having been involved, a lot of this reminds me of that. john kerry is mitt romney. he was the front-runner, the solid uninspiring choice. and all my