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Really know it. it's your home turf. it's made of the party we grew up with. moderate to conservative. now it has a new wing. who's winning? >> well, i think the establishment wing, if you want to say it, is not winning. they are taking on some more water. they've got to fight back in the primaries. they've got to be able to make these members honest so they don't keep on going to the right. the most important thing -- >> why is everybody afraid to challenge the hard right in the weeks of the government shutdown? so much they stayed in line until they got the permission slip from the speaker i...

Establishment wing actually, the republican wing of the republican party. >> the winning wing. >> those are the ones. i've written about this for 80 years that's the wing that always wins. this wing over here make a little bit of noise in iowa, make a little bit of noise in the early states but then turn south to florida and go up to the midwest and northeast and this is the wing that always wins. the press always follow this wing because they are so much more fun watching them set their hair on fire. >> you brought up chris christie. to your point one of the major papers in new jersey, when y...

They weren't unified in the strategy going into this with cruz, and it's a little bit confusing now to people. so i think when people answer that question, they have two views of the republican party. there's the more establishment wing of the republican party. >> the rhinos. >> hippos, rhinos, giraffes, whatever we're calling them. they have a view that, look, it's better to cut the deals with obama, take the victories where you can get them and put some points on the board, okay? they have a certain view on trade, more open borders, a view of a whole host of issues. they're not into the soci...

They weren't unified in the strategy going into this with cruz, and it's a little bit confusing now to people. so i think when people answer that question, they have two views of the republican party. there's the more establishment wing of the republican party. >> the rhinos. >> hippos, rhinos, giraffes, whatever we're calling them. they have a view that, look, it's better to cut the deals with obama, take the victories where you can get them and put some points on the board, okay? they have a certain view on trade, more open borders, a view of a whole host of issues. they're not into the soci...

Is an addition to all of that, if we think washington is going to redesign itself and breathe life back into the constitution, it's not. the constitution provides the salvation for the constitution in article five, with the state convention process, where we the people, working from the bottom up, through our states, over a period of time, even those of us in dark, dark blue states, you never know, events are going to change the politics of a given state and so forth. we have to seize back what is ours. and what is ours is a constitutional republic and right now, i don't know what we have, but...