republican pro republican primaries and iowa and the midwest and deep south. he'll win republican primaries in the northeast but this is not a party that's going to nominate a moderate. it isn't there. the base of the party is the party that shut down the government and they want a cruz or ran paul or others we don't know of yet. they don't want what they think of a mitt romney. >> it comes down to prague ma 'tis m, too. if we get to 2014, the end of the year and it looks increasingly like a tea party candidate simply cannot beat a democratic candidate in a general election, won't there be a movement towards someone like chris christie, by his own admission today i'm about winning. elections are about winning. it's time the republicans learned how to win elections again. he's right, isn't he? >> he is right, but the crux of the republican civil war is that yes, there are people who want