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Senate republicans who didn't stand with the house republicans. >> right. >> who caught -- who were the reason this thing didn't work. >> they are about the only people in washington that believe that -- the cruz thing was a fally. >> there is a poll out tonight that asked republicans what you think of the tea party. half of republican voters thing the tea party is separate from them. i don't think john boehner can control them anymore after this. they will go home and define. ted cruz will be very warmly received back in texas. >> raised a lot of money in this. >> the question is can there be...

Would have given a flying flip so to speak, if he didn't have a chance to best his friend rand paul. rand paul did his for 13 hours and he had almost twice as many people out to be there with them, even though it was about drone warfare. cruz had the more popular issue among republicans opposing obama care, 21 hours of this. there were very few people that wanted to go stand with him, not because they didn't agree with him on the issue, it's because they can't stand ted cruz. after this 21-hour exercise in self-grandizement, i do not expect his reputation has improved any. >> any didn't stand ...

The anger against hosni mubarak's similar behavior. in that case, the military sided with the protesters. in this case, it seems to be the same. i'd be very surprised , despite president obama's call to morsi to reassure him in a sense, i would be very surprised if the u.s. in the end didn't stand with the military, which is our closest ally in egypt. >> let's just take the next step in that only sis. what are the -- inside the administration thinking about this and what the various scenarios are that it imagined playing out and what the best case scenario is and what the worst case scenario i...

Here he was writing off half of the american people when he was trying to lead them. and i remember huddling meal with david axelrod and stephanie cutter and trying to calibrate our response. when we took a look at the tape, we decided the most important thing for to us do was to get out of the way, let the american people hear mitt romney talk about the 47% in his own words. and that's what we did in battleground markets across the country. we put that tape up on the air for all americans to hear. >> and i think that was wise that you got out of the way. didn't stand in the way of the story. ...

The whole ticket wasn't just palin. it was also mccain. they both lost. it's amazing that bona fide war hero lost to a guy whose only pedigree what he ate one. what is the reason? the reason is the tiny "r" next to their name. it was because they were republicans, who didn't stand for anything anymore. it didn't have anything to do with palin. >> bob: you don't think palin had anything to do with -- >> greg: no. i think palin added excitement to the ticket. but they weren't going to win. >> eric: there is an interesting discussion here. why would dick cheney at this point with a month left or ...