if mike simpson were to go down, what message would that send regarding the 2014 midterms?groups or the conservative groups and empower them ahead of the few big, big contests, for example mississippi and thad walker's fight there or maybe kansas down the line, but so much, as you said earlier focused on this one date in may, it is going to be difficult for the tea party to gain a whole lot of momentum out of that, and that said, it is a club for growth versus the chamber of commerce battle when you talk about outside of the groups, and this is a big mantle for the club for growth and a huge win in the cycle overall. >> yes, and one thing about the house races and the house primaries and going back to the last cycle, it was not the house races that got the most attention where the incumbents lost, but it is the ones that didn't have the big group like gene schmidt, and cliff stearns in florida, so even if he wins, it does not mean that the other incumbents are safe in the primaries. >> not a good year to be an incumbent. and in georgia, a lot of the strong contenders in the

the choice for congress is mike simpson. i know because i have seen him in action. mike is fighting hard every day to cut washington's wasteful spending. to stop lawsuits. and fight against obama care. we are going to win this battle. i hope you will join me and strongly support mike simpson for congress. >> patrick, he's back. but is it too soon? >> i think it is a little too soon to be honest, alex. they go become to the tax and spend stuff. wasteful spending. they didn't want to talk about the five trillion dollars of the iraq war. a conservative estimate. you know -- it just -- people -- have woken up. to the same false attacks. same old slogans, same old sloganeer. howard dean, patrick murphy. thank you for joining me. as republicans fry to shore up the female boat one of the icons decided to weigh in economic security. a lot to do with marriage and lit to do with pay men more. that's next. >> later, while white-collar crime in the age of the financial meltdown has gone unpunished. those caught in the criminal justice system have not been as lucky. the author of

romney can do good there for mike simpson.maybe he had stamps to get, too, sglon and picked up stamps. let's call this one a clean-up on aisle 5. rand paul, a potential 2016 candidate as well, the son of ron paul. so because of that, because of his libertarian leanings, because he's the son of ron paul, just about anything rand paul says on foreign policy gets extra scrutiny not just from democrats but from republicans. there's a big debate in the republican party right now. here's rand paul talking about sanctions on iran with abc's john carl a while back. >> i've repeatedly voted for sanctions against iran. i think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons. people who say, by golly, we will never stand for that, they are voting for war. >> that's april 13th. pick up "the washington post" today, and this is what you read, op ed from rand paul trying to clean this language up again. to be against a we will never contain iran resolution is not the same as being for containment of a nuclear i

you can take it from me, the conservative choice for congress is mike simpson and i know because i have> and romney as the elder, and h.w. not in the conversation or, jr., and how is he molding himself to help the party? >> well, idaho is a good example, because it is heavily mormon state, and might work there where it won't work across the country. he is the first republican candidate to raise $1 billion and this is as it has been and will be before we reform the campaign finance is the money game. that is the game the play, and it does open up the opportunity for the progressives to say, that the whole system is dominated by the ceos and the wall street folks. >> jonathan? >> well, the problem is turning the kock brothers into a boogeyman is a long time proposition, and to do that between now and the election when most americans have not heard of the kock brothers and they are not on the ballot, and that is why the pure 1% argument is not sufficient for the primary wins. >> thank you both for your time. we will go to the nbc white house to peter alexander who is watching what is a lot