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Run for president, i have to show whats in my heart. i have to show that i care about people about their future. it cant be about the past it cant be about my mom and dad or my brother. >> reporter: but many here at cpac are looking for a new name. >> i think hes just another republican honestly and part of the royal family. two royal families the clintons and bushes. >> reporter: earlier in the day an audience waiting for favorite rand paul showed their disdain for the establishment pick. >> je...

Christie new jersey governor taking aim at the establishment pick, jeb bush. at the annual conservative revival of cpac gop presidential hopeful chris christie took aim at jeb bush the gop establishment favorite for 2016 who is luring donors and supporters away from the new jersey governor. >> if the elites in washington who make back room deals decide who the presidents going to be then hes definitely the front-runner. >> reporter: christie faced a reserved crowd and tough interviewer, laura in...

Impose on the par results of the races we have seen thus far in the race? >> the primary results we have seen overall? >> yes, tonight and up until now. >> what we have seen is a dramatic shift of what establishment republicans mean. we saw tom to list win in north carolina. he was the establishment pick. tonight in torture, kingston will pull it out. they would be establishment picks, but these guys have moved so far to the right, not just during the primary season but over the last couple of y...

Certainly florida moved hard to the right since 2008. jon: john mccain won florida. mitt romney came in second. romney seems to have support of some of those conservatives. >> he has the support of so many of those conservatives. the goal for him, the hope, he can recreate what he was last time. remember when he was in florida against john mccain and came in second he was chasing mccain as conservative alternative. he was running to the right of mccain in florida and trying to say conservatives ...

Paul campaign. the establishment pick. that made it interesting. ultimately this is interesting because michele bachmann, is iowa important we talked about before. its the great eliminator. she might be finishing last, might be the end of her campaign. >> despite the fact it got attention, fun, saw it as a metaphor for the struggling campaign. >> i think thats right. the washington press did a great story on how this was sort of evidence of the broader themes that are evidence in the race. i als...

>> chuck todd and peter alexander are in iowa tonight. >> abcs john carl in iowa for us tonight. >> well turn our critical edge on reporters in iowa and washington and especially the surge in negative reporting about ron paul. >> this the skeleton in ron pauls closet. this is from the ron paul newsletter. >> so you read them but you didnt do anything about it at the time. >> i never read this stuff. >> why did the press take so long to start examining the congressmans sometimes inflamm...

Super anti-establishment tumult of 2010, theres been a sense by people observing this years republican race, myself included, that maybe those old rules dont apply anymore, that maybe were still in the midst of the tea party backlash. and the tea party just wont accept an establishment guy like mitt romney. the operating assumption of the political media looking at this race has been its all about the conservative base searching for the anti-mitt romney, the anti-establishment candidate. but tha...

a number of people. this was after a football game in texas. you see the effort going on there to try to stop this runaway cart. they finally did. questions this morning about why it was going on its own in the first place. also, many of you need to be prepping for a major winter storm thats expected to drop up to 15 inches of snow. our reynolds wolf is all over this. hell be along in a moment. it started as shock and awe nearly nine years ago. its ended with sand and dust on a des...

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Something were going to see play out all of 2011 between the establishment pick, probably romney, and the person who is going to be the nonestablishment pick. so its going to be a really interesting -- we saw that tea party dynamic play out in 2010 and it might play out again in 2011 and 2012. >> lets focus on mike huckabee, first by saying that president obama has grown up in kenya. then huckabee criticized actress natalie portman for being pregnant out of wedlock, maybe not directly saying tha...