Message to the tea party . Has the tea party lost its snem. To night you sent a message. Lost some of its influence. Surprise of the night. The nail biter in virginia. Republican Ken Cuccinelli. To night you isnt a message to the president of the United States. Virginia turned into a proxy fight. A swing state. Republicans had to work extra hard. 48 of voters blame republicans. For the government shutdown. The shutdown was magnificent. Run beautifully. I am so proud of the republicans. The impact of the obama care debate in yesterdays election. Obama care is a failure. Get ready for this. Kathleen sebilius is back on capitol hill. How long can a hot seat stay hot . Obama care is a failure. When you look at what happened last night. Republicans ha to work extra hard. Were voters really sending a message . Big questions remain. There is a lot to dip jegestr this. The civil war within the Republican Party continues to rage. The republican establishment is fighting back against the two par
Hard. 48 of voters blame republicans. For the government shutdown. The shutdown was magnificent. Run beautifully. I am so proud of the republicans. The impact of the obama care debate in yesterdays election. Obama care is a failure. Get ready for this. Kathleen sebelius is back on capitol hill. How long can a hot seat stay hot . Obama care is a failure. When you look at what happened last night. Republicans ha to work extra hard. Were voters really sending a message . Big questions remain. There is a lot to digest over this. The civil war within the Republican Party continues to rage. The republican establishment is fighting back against the two party attempts to take over the Republican Party. And last night, the republican establishment won. Ill tell you it is a shame what happened to Ken Cuccinelli because he was betrayed bay his own party. In virginia, a weak democratic candidate beat a much weaker and crazy sounding tea party candidate, Ken Cuccinelli. Today a disappointed Rush Li
all of these promises. and then i wondered about you know when, when, when the what? what do you want me to tell romney? i can t tell him to do that. he can t do that to himself. you are absolutely crazy. you are getting as bad as biden. and it got much worse from there. john, this book which i love, has the story that we were wondering abut that night. it has the story of what was happening backstage while that was happening on stage at the republican convention. it does. it s one of the stories. try to do this throughout the book. take big public moments. tell you what was going on behind the scenes. you had clint eastwood hadn t been allowed to go on stage,
and florida, all states with republican governors up for re-election next year. he told south carolina republican he s wants to help senator lindsay graham. and today, the republican party in new hampshire, the nation s first primary state of course, announced it is hiring chris christie s former regional political director as new hampshire s new republican party executive director. joining me now, the national affairs editor for new york magazine. and author of double down most publicized book in american history. joining me, the huffington post s sam stein. john, in this book, there is plenty of material about the vetting of chris christie as a possible vice presidential candidate. and we re going to be seeing a lot of that material as the he moves into a presidential campaign. you know there is a lot of stuff in the christie record,