if you look at the criticism that richard lugar made -- richard murdock murdoch's defense of himself it's the same thing. he said he doesn't want to legislate. he said i don't want to legislate. he said we will make the compromises necessary to get things done. murdoch said that is exactly what i want to do. if you let me i will for sand and the gear of the government and prevent things from getting done. i don't agree with a consensus what is done in washington for so long. i am pursuing a different path. that is true with the rise of the tea party movement in 2010. voters that voted for the tea party candidates were not tracked into the kind of tactics that supporters of the tea party movement were going to follow once they got to washington. they said that they were willing to take the government to the edge of a cliff on something like the debt ceiling and over the cliff because they said there was the only way that they could achieve the kind of political ends that they wanted to see so it seems the fundamental problem here is dealing with a lack of the government and a disconne

from the party that brought america todd akin, richard murdock, and herman cain, meet ken cuccinelli,te senator, tea party provocature, and presumed nominee for virginia. most famous for suing the federal government over the affordable care act has a formidable track record. he is pro-life, anti-gay and a climate change denier. he is called the obama administration the biggest set of lawbreakers in america. he has equated medicare to mugging the sick and elderly. he has said that virginia has outgrown the institutionalized racism that will gave rise to the voting rights act. he has seed the epa. he has suggested that gays are not protected by the 14th amendment. he has said your social security number is being used to track you. while he may be the presumed nominee, his breed of ideology poses serious concerns for more moderate members of the gop. virginia's lute napt governor bill bowling, a republican and potential opponent, told the national journal in many ways i think our party is in search of an identity. are we going to be a party that's more interested in rigid idealogical con

we saw with richard murdock and todd akin, there are certain areas where it seems increasingly -- certainre increasingly political kryptonite, and, yet, there is still a hunger on the state level to go forward with this legislation. you have to wonder at what point does the national party leadership, if it even exists anymore, step -- at what point do they step in and say enough? enough with this? it is not working for us or good for us? it is not good for the party. >> well, on a rationale measure, based on election results, you would say now, but, actually, this isn't a -- there's a parallel with the gun debate. not because you threw that up at the top here, but where you have a national advocacy group, in this case it's about choice, but it could be the nra, which is very effective at the state level, and pushes people on through primaries, the national leadership is not willing to take them off. no matter what the polls say, no matter what the demographics. even where it's relatively easy on immigration where the organization that is anti-immigration reform is perhaps less organized,

i could go on and on of mainstream republicans who got blown up by tea party opponents like richard murdockke todd akin, who went on to than those in the general election. there are extremists on both sides. the democrats are in the minority right now. derrik sweeney is not taking people out in primaries and therefore is not creating fear for the president. not that the president needs to run a primary again. but the president has put stuff on the table that has enraged his left-wing, but chained cpi, who flirted with increasing the medicare cost. left-wing hated the president for that and yet he did it. it's not happening on the other side. host: you have taken on a new role in the election cycle as the finance chair for the democratic campaign committee in the house. here is the editorial section of the wall street journal this morning -- how are you coordinating with the white house on this? guest: no coordination with the white house on this. i was only asked to do this two weeks ago, so there has not been much activity. my job as finance chair is to help raise the money for the democra