beyond that building. he will not be successful in that building. to that point. this was in politico on friday, talking about a meeting of republican senators this week t. president gets up every day and reads the newspaper and thanks god that ted cruz is in the united states senate. republicans told cruz at a closed door meeting they had this week. it gets to this poll, josh, that came out that shows ted cruz is standing with republicans who identify with the tea party republicans, republicans who don t identify with the tea party totally different story. it was in tea party america, ted cruz is a king right now. it s a festering disaster for the republican party. there is this idea that the only threat is from the right and that in the house the way the map is drawn so insulates them they don t need to worry about appealing to the center. that s why they have allowed ted cruz to drag them into this fight. the math isn t as protective as they think. if the republicans lose the
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fever, i do think about something different with this point. so you had your tea party group of people who got convinced and the conservatives got conventioned the shutdown strategy might work. some might be chasing. but throughout the whole period since the election, you have people like paul ryan saying when we get to that next debt limit, when we get out there in september, october, that s when we will get president obama to the table to negotiate. so we have to continue to make demand, whether about obama care or the budget, come to him with relief. with an offer. he ll come to the table and start negotiating. i think paul ryan thinks that is not true anymore. so that if you have the 30 or 40 people who think if they would have stayed with the shutdown, have them off the rest of the republican party knows, they re not getting anything out of obama care or nothing for free just for funding the government,
idea to limit the deadlines on the democrats. it seems it depends, though, it s coming from these outside voices. well the pressure applied on republicans from little baugh, from cruz, from the senate conservative funds, all these outside groups that have been so active in defining conservatives. brean and i spend our days talking to people in washington who leak ted cruz, republicans and democrats alike. that s not going to matter. he s going to iowa next friday. they like him. the new york times has a story of going back to texas, people glad, seaing the same thing rush little baugh said, saying we need 45 people leak him. that s the point of grand standing. it s not about the building you are in. it s about the beggar message. now, he was an unknown freshman, now everyone in america knows who he is. they might hate him. that isn t bad in politics when you are able to capitalize on that spark. i m not saying he s going to when the republican caucus in 2016 or anything. that def
he s not worried about being seen as too liberal. he is actually proudly running to the left of cuccinelli on cultural issues. it seems to be working. do you think, are we watching the political culture of virginia change in this election? steve, it s always good to be with you. i agree with you to the extent that it has changed. i think ron bronstein is absolutely right. one of the things that impressed me about terry mccauliffe and quite frankly i said i endorsed this candidacy. is because of the very fact he is not saying, look, i m afraid to say what i believe. when someone asked him at one of the debates, well you had a point with the nra. he said, fine, i don t have any problem with that. i still believe we need to have some legitimacy relative to this pro live iraqis of guns and to the extent that he has made a case for women and i say another