in some cases drawing a line all the way back to newt gingrich to explain why we are where we are, but can you speak about a more recent phenomenon which is the purist wing, the arrival of the tea party, which seemed to want to just cut government with a meat ax and it really wasn t focused on good government, it was more just focused on cutting everything and anything. because when i go out and talk to the american people, conservatives, what they want is good government, not necessarily for this movement to have come in and just taken a meat ax approach to the budget. i m pleased to say that i was an early adopter on not supporting the tea party. i didn t like it when it arose, i thought it went off the rails quickly, i thought that the dangerous kind of tendencies that we re seeing now that charlie and michael talked about, the kind of grifter
is obamacare that is hurting millions of people, the democrats said the mainstream media said, although i repeat myself, they said this is hopeless. don t you understand? just move on. just accept. you can t do anything to stop this! yes we can. yes, we can. drafed david gregory, how about ted cruz do? he is a terrific speaker and has great poise and great presence and represents a wing of the party that is going to be a purist wing. to me a stage of the debate stage with chris christie. ? he says, christie says we have to focus on winning and not just principle? he s got it wrong. he will represent that wing of the party that under to take on the establishment and defund