you're first, peter wayner. react to what you heard from buchanan about the experiment. what happens if it's a pure conservative? >> well, it depends on which the conservative. who the conservative you're talking about. marco rubio is a conservative, a product of the tea party. he's a person that is a traditional conservative. i don't know that it's so much the -- where they come down on the issues, because cruz and rubio are close on the issues. a lot of this has to do with disposition temperament. and i would say that ted cruz is a crusader, and marco rubio is a persuader. i tend to break politicians down into those two categories. and i think that when you're a republican on the national stage, the presidential election now, where you've lost five of the last six presidential elections in the popular vote, you need to have somebody who is a persuader. i think that temperamentally -- ted cruz is problematic. reagan was a conservative and goldwater was a conservative. but they had a very, very different approach in terms of politics. goldwater had serrated edges, scared