backing that individual. that individual ended up getting about 30% of the vote when i got 62. oklahomans as a matter of fact, there s been op eds written on it. they d just as soon everybody stay out. tom coburn he is a smart guy, yes, he is. people listen to him in oklahoma. they certainly did last night. they did. what s interesting, coburn was very careful. he didn t fully take sides. boy, any time he thought things got over the line in the attacks on langford, he stepped in. it was interesting, he played referee here. campaigns matter. langford ran a good old-fashioned smart, statewide campaign, sort of nose to the grindstone, didn t play didn t worry about star power, didn t worry about the some people were trying to turn this into some sort of tea party establishment thing. how is the statehouse speaker any less establishment than a member of congress? i always thought that that was a
very interesting. tom coburn, we had him on the show about a month ago. what tom coburn said was, you know, oklahomans, we don t need outsiders coming out telling us how to vote. why don t we show you that. this is tom on our show. i think they ll be a backlash oklahomans don t like being told who to vote for. if you ll recall in 2004 when i ran, washington was telling them what republican to vote for and spent millions of dollars backing that individual, and that individual ended up getting about 30% of the vote when i got 62. as a matter of fact, there s been op eds written on it. they just assume everybody stay out and let us figure it out. would bit the coburn common sense that will pull through or the palin-cruz star power?
he is, he is, he is the whole package. by the way, harold just said off camera he s moving to alaska. or is she in arizona now? or oklahoma. really? that s major star power, right? it is. it would get harold he is it. before this round here, there was palin and cruz and the people they supported. congressman james langford easily crushed shannon by more than 20 points. the seat opened up when senator tom coburn announced his resignation. coburn weighed in on state politics last week on morning joe. i think there will be a backlash from their oklahomans don t like being told who to vote for. if you ll recall in 2004 when i ran washington was telling them what republican to vote for and spent millions of dollars