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Headlines, i think, is a very dangerous thought. >> christie took that shot in the wake of the house's vote to defund nsa bulk collection of phone records which failed by a narrow margin. christie's attempt to stamp out a growing fire of skepticism among the republican base toward everything from mass surveillance to foreign wars. a base that appears to be moving in a decidedly rand paulian direction. christie, positioning himself as the bona fide neocon alternative. saved his best attack lines for paul and his accolades. >> you can name any number of people who have -- he's one of them. i mea...

Palin and the -- >> george w. bush. >> after he had become president. before that, it was john mccain. he was more experienced in foreign policy. they supplied an entire kind of ideological of working teddy roosevelt methos to go along with his family pattern in the past. it is a strange tick. why are they doing this? one reason is simply that they're trying to win elections and have their policy preferences enacted in washington. they're playing politics. >> that's what everyone does. >> they're doing it better than libertarian noninterventionists are playing politics, certainly. but there's ...

Dangerous thought. >> christie took that shot in the wake of the house's vote to defund nsa bulk collection of phone records which failed by a narrow margin. christie's attempt to stamp out a growing fire of skepticism among the republican base toward everything from mass surveillance to foreign wars. a base that appears to be moving in a decidedly rand paulian direction. christie, positioning himself as the bona fide neocon alternat e alternative. saved his best attack lines for paul and his accolades. >> you can name any number of people who have -- he's one of them. i mean, these esoteric i...

That's going through both parties right now and making big headlines, i think, is a very dangerous thought. >> christie took that shot in the wake of the house's vote to defund nsa bulk collection of phone records which failed by a narrow margin. christie's attempt to stamp out a growing fire of skepticism among the republican base toward everything from mass surveillance to foreign wars. a base that appears to be moving in a decidedly rand paulian direction. christie, positioning himself as the bona fide neocon alternative. saved his best attack lines for paul and his accolades. >> you can na...

Back to that nsa vote last week, a majority of republicans wanted to continue the program. a majority of democrats voted against it. michele bachmann got down in the well of the house and talked jihad, jihad, jihad. >> right. >> and didn't want anything to do with this amendment. i do think it's an open question, really, where the base is. >> absolutely. it's an interesting thing, where more democrats voted for this but the action in initiating these things are coming from libertarian republicans like rand paul. and, yes, republicans when they're out of power suddenly get skeptical about its u...