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when they start blaming the one guy who won. the crazy angry right of the republican party spent the last several hours attacking new jersey governor chris christie like he was the creature from the black lagoon. all the guy did was manage to carry 60% of a deep blue state to a normal sane political party might offer a map to victory nationwide. didn't happen that way. on tuesday night republicans put up two tea party candidates. one in an alabama primary and the other in the virginia governors race. both lost. the race republicans did win by a blowout was in new jersey where mainstream governor chris christie distanced himself from the tea party extremists. the cruz wing of the party wants you to believe they didn't lose tuesday. they were betrayed. especially in virginia. they hold true to that despite the fact cuccinelli was viewed as the more extreme. our party in many respects in virginia has been taken over by
have to elect these pure republicans, pure by their definition, that we are not in functional control of the united states senate as a party today. harry reid who every republican is supposed to hate wouldn't be the senate majority leader if it hadn't been for sharon engel. so while they continue to hue towards the small section of the party to nominate people who are not electable in certain areas. in places like texas, ted cruz could be hired. >> we must run the most left wing possible candidate each time in every part of the country. thank you very much. coming up, if you want proof that chris christie is the republican front runner for 2016, listen to what his would be rivals are saying about him. rand paul's called him a moderate. bad word for republicans. marco rubio suggested he'd have a hard time winning outside new
times in this interview. he's admitting that the architecture of the law is not good as it relates to those people who are on sub-par plans who are getting kicked off of them. and that's a significant admission on the president's part. and it's one i would bet that the republicans are going to seize on immediately. >> you know, joan, just to interrupt here for a second. i want your view, but i want people to know where i stand on this. both political parties have played with the idea, mostly the democrats of course, of putting together a national health care plan. the republicans did it under teddy roosevelt. and i think ted kennedy was one of those who helped shoot one down. now we have a health care plan thanks to one man and largely because of nancy pelosi. the other party is still vacant. if there was a hospital in one party -- one party had a lot with a hospital on it, the other has a vacant lot next to it. they have no room to criticize. but i do believe being a fan of the president's that he did make
that chris christie is the republican front runner for 2016, listen to what his would be rivals are saying about him. rand paul's called him a moderate. bad word for republicans. marco rubio suggested he'd have a hard time winning outside new jersey. and ted cruz knocked him for not standing up for principles. make no mistake, these guys are talking that way because to them christie is a real threat. plus president obama talks for the first time about whether he really considered dumping joe biden for hillary clinton last year. and the president travels to texas. ted cruz country. has some choice words for the texas senator. finally, let me finish with the strange way the republican party is rebuilding itself. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. people don't have to think about where their electricity comes from. they flip the switch-- and the light comes on. it's our job to make sure that it does. using natural gas this power plant can produce enough energy for about 600,000 homes. generating electricity that's cleaner and reliable, with fewer emissions--
them. and that's a significant admission on the president's part. and it's one i would bet that the republicans are going to seize on immediately. >> you know, joan, just to interrupt here for a second. i want your view, but i want people to know where i stand on this. both political parties have played with the idea, mostly the democrats of course, of putting together a national health care plan. the republicans did it under teddy roosevelt. and i think ted kennedy was one of those who helped shoot one down. now we have a health care plan thanks to one man and largely because of nancy pelosi. the other party is still vacant. if there was a hospital in one party -- one party had a lot with a hospital on it, the other has a vacant lot next to it. they have no room to criticize. but i do believe being a fan of the president's that he did make a very broad promise that if you liked what you had, you can keep it. there'd be nothing changed. i think he's got to deal with that directly. not sure he's done that yet.
personality. he's lifted himself to a cultural figure here. the way palin did, clinton did, bush did. and say i'm past politics. i'll tame it when i get wherever i'm going. even said it last night because of who he is, brash, bold, a different politician than we've seen from republicans in awhile. >> here's some real -- i want to say something about rand paul. he's getting smaller by the minute. he had negative words for christie. christie was on tv ads to boost the new jersey economy after hurricane sandy. they were funded with the federal is disaster and state money. let's watch this -- just watch rand paul going at him here. let's watch. >> some of these ads people running for office put their mug all over these ads while they're in the middle of a political campaign. in new jersey $25 million was
understand it because i'm in politics, is folks who are complaining about how the website's not working. and why isn't obama fixing this and all these people are uninsured. yet they're leaving a million people right now without health insurance. that they could immediately fix. there's not a lot of logic to that. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was, of course, president obama at a town hall event last night in dallas, attacking republicans who have made it their mission to destroy the affordable care act. republicans like texas senator ted cruz. in fact, the president specifically attacked cruz as an ideologue when he spoke at a private event later that night. that's later last night, saying, "what precipitated, according to at least one senator from texas, the necessity for the shutdown is the affordable care act. in the state of texas, you've got more uninsured people than any place in the country.
seen from republicans in awhile. >> here's some real -- i want to say something about rand paul. he's getting smaller by the minute. he had negative words for christie. christie was on tv ads to boost the new jersey economy after hurricane sandy. they were funded with the federal is disaster and state money. let's watch this -- just watch rand paul going at him here. let's watch. >> some of these ads people running for office put their mug all over these ads while they're in the middle of a political campaign. in new jersey $25 million was spent on ads for somebody running for office. you think there might be a conflict of interest there. that's a real problem. that's why when people who are trying to do good and trying to
>> well, that's a great tag line. what were they thinking? what's your answer to that? why do right wing put up the craziest candidates up? >> i have no idea. i have argued for a long time that it's this notion that we have to elect these pure republicans, pure by their definition, that we are not in functional control of the united states senate as a party today. harry reid who every republican is supposed to hate wouldn't be the senate majority leader if it hadn't been for sharon engel. so while they continue to hue towards the small section of the party to nominate people who are not electable in certain areas. in places like texas, ted cruz could be hired. >> we must run the most left wing possible candidate each time in every part of the country. thank you very much. coming up, if you want proof
complaining about how the website's not working. and why isn't obama fixing this and all these people are uninsured. yet they're leaving a million people right now without health insurance. that they could immediately fix. there's not a lot of logic to that. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was of course president obama at a town hall event last night in dallas attacking republicans who have made it their mission to destroy the affordable care act. republicans like texas senator ted cruz. in fact, the president specifically attacked cruz as an ideologue when he spoke as a private event last night saying, quote, what precipitated according to at least one senator in texas, the necessity for the shutdown is the affordable care act. in the state of texas you've got more uninsured people than any place in the country. a million people could have health insurance, the only reason they're not doing it is ideology. well said. ted cruz didn't take kindly to