Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111230:00:03:00
They're people who care about their party and they vet candidates and go through all their little rituals. but at the end of the day, the purpose of the exercise is to win back the white house. and right now to a lot of them, to a growing number of republicans i talk to, they're getting -- >> so a phrase i use to the distraction of all our producers, they're getting their heads around the challenge of picking a candidate who will beat jimmy -- there's a mistake. who will beat barack obama. >> exactly. >> howard, is that the way you see it? because a couple days we were thinking that ron paul i...