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Texas congressman ron paul, a distant second with 11% of the vote. joining me now is msnbc contributor dave wiegel. you have ken buck. i've got to think he is voicing john mccain's private thoughts and other formerly mainstream republicans' private thoughts. republicans that are now in the business of pandering to the tea partiers. how widespread is that sort of republican cynicism about the tea party? >> cynicism about the kind of things he was complaining about, i think, is pretty -- that's pretty widespread. i've heard lots of republicans talk about this as a distraction. for every republic...