Definition: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
Input: Statement: The thundering Republican condemnations of the special prosecutor back then are just like the thundering Democratic condemnations today, down to the very phrase, four years and $40 million. Choices: 1. The thundering Republic condemnations back then are similar in many ways to the thundering Democratic condemnations of today.  2. The thundering Republican condemnations are in no way similar to the thundering Democratic condemnations. 3. The thundering Republican condemnations are four years and $40 million. 

1