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Very roman catholic. he is a roman catholic convert. something pope francis could say and it would be unremarkable. but as an american public official whose held public office and is a law enforcement official potentially if he becomes president, to say cross get border from some other country because you choose to do it against u.s. law and just move into the country to get a job illegally is not going to sell. what do you think? act of love. that might be a stretch for the republicans and the ...

Congress can find a way to control spending and foster job creation, thats not language the tea party voters want to hear. of course, health care repeal is driving the tea party voters to the polls. look at this number. 85%, tea partiers believe the u.s. supporters to the polls. for this group, the hawks are out. lindsey graham, watch out. non-tea party republicans are allowing a bigger social tent, tea party republicans have a purity test. mcconneds embrace of rand paul makes sense when you see...

Guys are operating out of fear. whats important, though, lawrence, about the sond just played is that was speaker boehner trying to take some more control back, trying to reframe it. and if theyre threatening always only about this sort of vague purity test or this anti-obama test, i do think they run out of credibility. theres been a lot of talk in political science about whether we have too many issue groups and too many single issue groups and theres a critique about that. but i will say this...

Him always err on the tea party side of any strategic decision in the house. like will this inhibit him the way a tea party challenge has already inhibited mitch mcconnell? >> well, i think thats right, and its true up to a point. if you think about that in a foreign policy context, sometimes when the cia says they think a nation is being led by an irrational actor we actually take the nation more seriously and if we cant get rudd or stabilize that threat we worry how irrational are going to be....

Have misunderstood this. what can we do to make better predictions going forward. >> so what happened? i remember that around this time last 84 carl rove, megan kelly, now a prime timer on fox news was basically keling him you are doing math to make republicans feel good. what happened to change that? >> they had that move him where they were examineing their losses. they produced that autopsy report. remember, that was something done by the so-called party establish. by the elselders. when thin...

Passionate and committed. these are folks who are not interested in necessarily compromise. >> i have another purity test that im concerned about. can i get -- >> chris christie is authentic and charismatic, but he opposed ragz the minimum wage in his state and voters decided they wanted to raise the minimum wage. >> i can agree with -- >> public education has been the great equalizer, but when you attack teachers, i have a so many members of my family who are educators who believe, who go into ...

Failure, than an actual victory. theres a path to salvation staring them in the face and thats chris christie, by far and away the candidate most likely to have a victory in 2016. and hes the last guy they want to see get through a republican primary. so i think this is -- its sort of the purity test gone mad here and the idea is wed rather go down in flames and be pure about it than actually win an election. >> jimmy, it hasnt even been a full 48 hours since the cuch slumped to defeat and "the ...

Serenity is one way of putting it. i think the president is almo almost -- hes just quite comfortable out there in the way hes jabbing and punching at republicans. because no president is in a better position than when the opposite party is at each others throats. thats whats happening. and hes also dealing with a measure here in obama care that is settled. it may not be settled in terms of the impacts on the country, but as a legislative matter, its settled, as a legal matter its settled for no...

Heck, no. heck, no. its going to continue to cause internal ruptures. all of these things, you know, there are enough republicans who do want immigration reform, who do know that theyre not probably going to defund obama care. but rather than reform obama care, rather than tweak it to make it workable, in their view, or at least to reach a compromise, they would rather kill it than reform it. and to reform is to -- as you say, katty, its to fail the purity test. i dont think its helpful in the l...

Some ideological purity test where they want pure republicans whatever that means. they sat out, shame on them. so we missed an opportunity. >>steve: i dont get why they would sit out. >> i dont get it either. that is part of the problem with our party in massachusetts. you take somebody who has been a republican their whole lives but they are not good enough. they are not a national republican. im not from south carolina, neither is gabe. my and gabes national credentials are up against anybody...