brutal. they are putting big money into going against mccrory. already $4 million. they have $10 million in the bank to go after him. right out of the gate we have one republican calling another one a path apologist. by the time it is done, he will look like a little grim reaper. making mccrory liberal is not, he is not particularly liberal. you do have this, you know, pro putin wing of the republican party these days. and i mean, you heard some of that echoed in budd s comments. it is kind of surprising to see a republican given where the party has seemed to have been in the last month or so. i think we re learning about how big that pro putin wing is. certainly those voices have been the loudest, especially under donald trump, and some of the loudest anti-putin voices in the republican party have been