You've known him for years. Is he more or less conservative than you thought he was or just about where you thought he was?

This primary could be won with less than 30 percent from a strong fiscal and social conservative.

There were times I thought we were a little bit more conservative than we could have been, especially in the games that we played well early on and got out to big leads. I felt that sometimes we allowed teams to get back into it because we did pull the reins back a little bit.

The philosophies and positions and principles of the nominee are not just conservative, they are ultra-conservative.

We're not real conservative but fairly conservative. Our thought is to try to spread the money out and if you can get a 10 percent return, then that would be fine.

If he ever thought about putting forward a hard-nosed conservative, in the wake of Katrina and the negative publicity he's received, this is not the time to pick a political fight.