David Axelrod: “If I were them, I'd worry about him knocking himself out.”

There's no doubt about that. But I also want to say this. You know, all presidents sort of feed off of perceptions of the person who came before and they want to position against what people found lacking in the person that came before.

The nature of presidential politics is the bar gets raised constantly.

Unless the economy and his numbers rebound, Republicans are going to feel less willing to follow him blindly.

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.