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Latery running to the point where they disturb the image of the party. mourdock hurt romney. lets be honest here. akin hurt romney. whats her name in sharron angle hurt the party and still hurts the party. i think people like michele bachmann still hurt the party. allen west hurts the people. these people are so far over i will argue they make the republican party look whacky and loony, as steve schmitz said the other day. >> ill tell you would -- go ahead, erin. >> i was going to say lets go ba...

Disturb the image of the party. mourdock hurt romney. lets be honest here. akin hurt romney. sharron angle hurt the party and still hurts the party. i think people like michele bachmann still hurt the party. allen west hurts the people. these people are so far over i will argue they make the republican party look whacky and loony as steve schmitz said the other day. >> ill tell you would -- go ahead, erin. >> i was going to say lets go back to dans first comment. dan is a smart guy but that was ...

Who should pick the candidates in the republican party? >> lets go back to the basics. the people should decide who the republican and democratic nominees will be. when you take a look at how its been jerry-rigged, sharron angle in nevada, compromise unfortunately has been such a dirty word right now. in, in fact, youre a moderate republican youre a turncoat or rhino. we have to stop this and say if you are an arlen specter or rudman or scott brown, you are also welcome into the party. because y...

Im trying to figure out why the region party tends to have had an unusual load of crazy people running to the point they disturb the image of the party. mourdock hurt romney. lets be honest here. akin hurt romney. sharron angle hurt the party and still hurts the party. i think people like michele bachmann still hurt the party. allen west hurts the people. these people are so far over i will argue they make the republican party look whacky and loony as steve schmitz said the other day. >> ill tel...

Scotch and determine who the republican nominee is going to be is absolutely ludicrous and ridiculous. we need to go back to the basics of letting the best person win the primary -- >> you are talking in circles. im trying to figure out why the region party tends to have had an unusual load of crazy people running to the point they disturb the image of the party. mourdock hurt romney. lets be honest here. akin hurt romney. sharron angle hurt the party and still hurts the party. i think people li...

Candidates? by a couple of guys at the downtown club, the special club where only the top business guys meet and five and ten get together and say, its going to be joe because we like joe and its his turn, or the people with the scruffier crowds out in the boone docks to get -- they really care ideologically and they want the pure thing. who should pick the candidates in the republican party? >> lets go back to the basics. the people should decide who the republican and democratic nominees will ...

About that woman out in -- i forget her name, unfortunately, out in nevada who was really tough on -- sharron angle who was so tough on issues she was talking about. do you think theyre saying it the wrong way when theyre speaking conservative language or theyre saying something wrong? >> well, you know, todd akin -- >> which is it? >> todd akin was never a tea party candidate. thats important. there were two other primary challengers who were the favorite of the tea party who focused on fiscal ...

The direct impact is pretty obviously. you can see it in indiana and missouri. you had two candidates who would have the no won republican primaries in the pre-obama era. they won republican primaries, behaved like fringe candidates, and scared off fringe voters. but the indirect impact is seeing candidates like mourdock and akin and back in 2010, sharron angle start winning these primaries, it told candidates who would be strong republican candidates, the party cant deliver me the nomination, a...

So that directly and indirectly affected what happened last night. the direct impact is pretty obviously. you can see it in indiana and missouri. you had two candidates who would have the no won republican primaries in the pre-obama era. they won republican primaries, behaved like fringe candidates, and scared off fringe voters. but the indirect impact is seeing candidates like mourdock and akin and back in 2010, sharron angle start winning these primaries, it told candidates who would be strong...

Think of scott brown in massachusetts. very rare for a republican to win in massachusetts. brown did it in 2010. he voted for the blunt amendment this year and that became a big issue because -- so you even had candidates like scott brown and tommy thompson who could not be the strong candidates they should have been, and that has everything to do with the direction the republican party chose to go. >> here is the thing i think is -- i totally agree with all of that. and this is the thing i dont...