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Legitimate tea party challenge. there had been some discussion of whether cornyn was adequately loyal to ted cruz, whether he em braszed the ted cruz view of the world. stockman might be the one to exploit that and separate some conservatives from the cornyn campaign. not only did it never happen, i think everybody began to wonder whether the stockman campaign, as i've said before, was a prank. it seemed like something that the cornyn campaign created just to make him look awesome. >> yeah. >> because the fact is, stockman campaign was one of the most bizarre periods i think we've seen in mode...

Last second of the last hour of filing day, we thought, wow, cornyn may actually have a legitimate tea party challenge. there had been some discussion of whether cornyn was adequately loyal to ted cruz, whether he embraced the ted cruz view of the world. stockman might be the one to exploit that and separate some conservatives from the cornyn campaign. not only did it never happen, i think everybody began to wonder whether the stockman campaign, as i've said before, was a prank. it seemed like something that the cornyn campaign created just to make him look awesome. >> yeah. >> because the fac...

Exploit that and separate some conservatives from the cornyn campaign. not only did it never happen, i think everybody began to wonder whether the stockman campaign, as i've said before, was a prank. it seemed like something that the cornyn campaign created just to make him look awesome. >> yeah. >> because the fact is, stockman campaign was one of the most bizarre periods i think we've seen in modern texas political history. >> i've heard it referred to as an andy kaufman-esque conference art piece, referred to as a straight-up griff, a con meant to essentially create a kind of exit into, i d...

Against the president. so even coming out of an election where he was overwhelmingly elected, they were able to hold the linement you don't have that with the republican party on capitol hill. you're seeing the damage of it now. frankly you will see the damage done because of it in future months. this is not a situation where we're coming out of this and it is dramatically transformed -- >> here is my question, the conservative grass roots, which i would say you're a member of. there are rank and file members of the grass roots which i substantively disagree with, find their views dangerous, b...

Verify, it will go into conference with the senate, voted on now it could well pass both the house and senate. we don't want to vote at all. by the way it won't be enforced by this administration anyway. we need a republican senate and this amendment today you were talking about with senator cruz, my friend mickey summarized it brilliantly by saying it's like someone, a woman saying to her husband, we have another e-mail from that nigerian prince and i know he's a con man but this time he's offering us $20 million. it's all a con, as you were saying. none of this will be enforced. it has never...