washington-itis, but i don't think he will. >> the way i see it, the political rhetoric from most of politicians is in pastel colors. they talk for two hours and then you go away saying, what did they say of substance? probably nothing. but they haven't offended anybody and they have tried to make everybody their friend. they are pastel but donald trump is in vivid colors because he says things the way they are. >> i like his roughness and his ideas come tosque mind. he is tough. he is just tough. john: how many people in this room consider yourselves a member of the tea party? all of those hands up so i can see. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. so five. if you didn't put your hand up, do you feel the tea party is a good thing or the tea party doesn't have anything to do with that? cruz, so out of that, i didn't know much about and after seeing trump, it maybe look into it a little bit more. but i am not a full-fledged, but it is interesting. they do raise some really good points. john: i'm going to gore in the about any candidate who has struck you as interesting a little bit. >> ben carson. john: be

. >> and get washington-itis, which is so many politicians they go to washington and they become completelydon't work for the constituents any more. >> they also spoke about what concerns them about trump. >> potentially he could cross over with some inappropriate comment that's going to turn a large number of people off, and it would very much concern me if at that point he was the nominee. >> in my opinion what hurt romney was his success and his money and that could be trump's downfall as much as it's his asset. it could also be a weakness because of the way people perceive wealth. some see it as success and others as greed. >> yeah, i think he can shoot himself in the foot. >> joining the roundtable right now, michelle bernard, and former virginia congressman tom davis, a republican and martin frost, a democrat. they're the co-authors of a big new book "the partisan divide" which we'll talk about shortly. first, you got to pay for your supper here, guys. tom, you said before we came on the air that you think bush is handling the trump phenomenon correctly now. >> well he is now. he star