i'm sort of between the tea party and the other and i was then come and i remember talking to john ashbrock as he was preparing to launch his primary campaign against richard nixon. i said why are you doing this you are only going to get 10% of the vote. he looked at me and he said i'm doing it because someday we are going to be able to say that we went there. that is one reason people oppose the establishment figures they think have gone off in the wrong direction. more importantly, bald is exactly right. a few years ago, i was at a meeting with republican congressman was winning about the fact that he had gone to the county's republican meeting in florida and there were 200 people there and 180 of them were for ron paul. he said this is horrible. we have to find a way to keep people out. i said it seems to me the problem isn't with the ron paul people is with the regular republicans in the dimly round up people for the county meeting. the job of the party, and this is sort of what bob was saying is not to be exclusive, but to bring people in, the parties in the two-party system in particu

tend to forget that nixon was challengedded in the republican primaries in 1972 from the right by john ashbrock, and i feel i heard a forceful articulation of the point of view from the panel today opposed to anything that might be defined as the governing wing of the republican party. i could take issue with any number of statements that i heard whether they are on constitutional issues, political issues, factual issues, but i don't have to because the argument plays out within the republican party, and, particularly, the force we have not spoken about, the tea party against the governing wing of the party, and i point you to the op-ed in the new york times by john taft saying mr. conservative would not recognize the republican party today. the reputation of fiscal integrity based on irresponsible actions of the tea party, and i point the article in the national journal today on business groups challenging tea party candidates in the primaries and putting up candidates against them. there's a full blown civil war inside the republican party against arguments heard today, ai wondered if anyone