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Passionate and committed. these are folks who are not interested in necessarily compromise. >> i have another purity test that i'm concerned about. can i get -- >> chris christie is authentic and charismatic, but he opposed ragz the minimum wage in his state and voters decided they wanted to raise the minimum wage. >> i can agree with -- >> public education has been the great equalizer, but when you attack teachers, i have a so many members of my family who are educators who believe, who go into the classroom every day. i'm a part-time educator. but often republicans come across as anti-teache...

Failure, than an actual victory. there's a path to salvation staring them in the face and that's chris christie, by far and away the candidate most likely to have a victory in 2016. and he's the last guy they want to see get through a republican primary. so i think this is -- it's sort of the purity test gone mad here and the idea is we'd rather go down in flames and be pure about it than actually win an election. >> jimmy, it hasn't even been a full 48 hours since the cuch slumped to defeat and "the daily caller" reports he's being urged by conservatives to run for the u.s. senate next year a...

Serenity is one way of putting it. i think the president is almo almost -- he's just quite comfortable out there in the way he's jabbing and punching at republicans. because no president is in a better position than when the opposite party is at each other's throats. that's what's happening. and he's also dealing with a measure here in obama care that is settled. it may not be settled in terms of the impacts on the country, but as a legislative matter, it's settled, as a legal matter it's settled for now. democrats i've talked to today say, look. if republicans instead of having a purity test,...

Heck, no. heck, no. it's going to continue to cause internal ruptures. all of these things, you know, there are enough republicans who do want immigration reform, who do know that they're not probably going to defund obama care. but rather than reform obama care, rather than tweak it to make it workable, in their view, or at least to reach a compromise, they would rather kill it than reform it. and to reform is to -- as you say, katty, it's to fail the purity test. i don't think it's helpful in the long run and i don't think it's helpful in the short run, but it does get the base inspired and ...

Some ideological purity test where they want pure republicans whatever that means. they sat out, shame on them. so we missed an opportunity. >>steve: i don't get why they would sit out. >> i don't get it either. that is part of the problem with our party in massachusetts. you take somebody who has been a republican their whole lives but they are not good enough. they are not a national republican. i'm not from south carolina, neither is gabe. my and gabe's national credentials are up against anybody. on social things we're a bit more moderate. they want to show us a less sofpblt the -- lesson....