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And despite christie's victory, he has been declared as a rhino, republican in name only. rick perry, a tea partier himself conveniently left chris christie off the list of what he was calling conservative governors. it's not the first time that christie hasn't been invited to the party. the mainstream wing of the gop is firing back. led by the senate's top republican mitch mcconnell who opened fire on the ted cruz wing of the party in the wall street journal. in an interview with peggy noonan, mcconnell blasts the extremists in his party for both their views and tactics. he says, quote, the m...

Conservative of this mainstream wing, but they're not fanatical, certain they're right. >> we spent years trying to divert the catastrophe. do the people on the right know the problems if they default? >> i don't know if they -- they don't listen to anybody else. listen, if we default on our debt there is a good chance that the effect may be even greater than the default of lehman and eig back in 2010. you are locked in with all of these loans, and when the debt goes down, prices, people sell, as we learned in 2008, it is hard to recover.