i ll play the clip. the president is asking for the authority to do a limited action that will degrade the capacity of a tyrant whose been using chemical weapons to kill his own people. i think by doing so it s limited. it s limited. by doing so you announce your goal is not winning and i think the last 50 years of secretaries of defense would say senator, people ask do you want to go to war in syria? of course not. everybody, 100% of americans would say no. we say no. we don t want to go to war in syria, either. the president is not asking you to go to war. he s not asking you to declare war or send one american troop to war. how significant, congressman king, is the ran paul wing now of the republican party who basically want to stay out of the foreign affairs? i think it s increasingly
candidate in 2016 he had a very testy exchange with secretary kerry. i ll play the clip. the president is asking for the authority to do a limited action that will degrade the capacity of a tyrant whose been using chemical weapons to kill his own people. i think by doing so it s limited. it s limited. by doing so you announce your goal is not winning and i think the last 50 years of secretaries of defense would say senator, people ask do you want to go to war in syria? of course not. everybody, 100% of americans would say no. we say no. we don t want to go to war in syria, either. the president is not asking you to go to war. he s not asking you to declare war or send one american troop to war. how significant, congressman king, is the ran paul wing now
it s pretty darn good. we were hearing four years ago that 10% was his ceiling. now he s at 20% in iowa. i ll say two things about that. one, i d be stunned if the other candidates don t try to figure out which pieces of ron paul s message can they talk about to try to attract some of his supporters? and the other thing is, you know, there s a part of the republican party that is against the wars, american involvement overseas, they want more radical series of spending cuts, and they want some of the other elements of the paul agenda that are really antiestablishment, anti-washington, that is part of the republican party. and what you re going to see now increasingly is republicans saying, look, we have to make peace with ron paul personally and the paul wing of the party because that is now a fifth of the party. and really want to keep him from running as a third-party candidate in the fall. whoever the nominee is doesn t want to alienate paul. when i saw rand paul
it s pretty darn good. we were hearing four years ago that 10% was his ceiling. now he s at 20% in iowa. i ll say two things about that. one, i d be stunned if the other candidates don t try to figure out which pieces of ron paul s message can they talk about to try to attract some of his supporters? and the other thing is, you know, there s a part of the republican party that is against the wars, american involvement overseas, they want more radical series of spending cuts, and they want some of the other elements of the paul agenda that are really antiestablishment, anti-washington, that is part of the republican party. and what you re going to see now increasingly is republicans saying, look, we have to make peace with ron paul personally and the paul wing of the party because that is now a fifth of the party. and really want to keep him from running as a third-party candidate in the fall. whoever the nominee is doesn t want to alienate paul.
is something of a split. a lot of the tea party activist are driven by fiscal issues, they think washington is spending too much of their money. there s also an element that cares about cultural issues, too, and you see that rift in between how folks think of sarah palin and how they view ron paul. there s the palin way and the paul wing, chris. we have that thought up on the chart. your work here is going to be on the graph. here s the big divide within the tea party crowd. among the 88% who say government is trying to do too much there s an even split over whether government should promote traditional family values like opposition so same-sex marriage, opposition to legalized abortion. it s about even. what i find fascinating and i want to bring in richard wolffe on this. those who want to see more of a supervision of our social values, opposition to abortion of course and opposition to same-sex marriage tend to be palinites. and those who want a freer life