georgia right to life basic created the peach tea party and just took the tea party name and attached it to social causes. >> it's being really aggressive specifically on the issue of abortion.

party, the legal tea party has become unpopular. with the general electorate. a lot of what is going on is not celebrated as much as tea party activism. yet, it has had a terminus impact on the republican primary. not by picking out one horse in the horse race to endorse, because the tea party is not one organization, is not disciplined and central united, they have no capacity to select a tea party candidate. tea party voters looked around and tried try to find somebody they could get behind. there have been waves of enthusiasm from one after another, as a possibility. but it isn't surprising in many ways that when tea party voters go to the polls, along with other conservatives, some of them vote for libertarian and other voters vote for other more conservative candidates. there has been no united selection for a non-romney horse. when we interviewed tea partiers in the spring 2011, we found no consensus on who they wanted to be their candidate. we found a lot of pragmatism about finding somebody unlike serbia when, who could actu

the tea party was maybe onto something. whether the tea party itself motivated voters maybe debatable as a proposition but with their out sized outer rage they represented a real sentiment, a sense of disposition, distrust of institutions and panicked fear of decline. you saw that in the 2010 elections especially in the house where republicans won control with dozens of new seats. many of them filled by fresh law makest. republicans controlled most state legislatures and held the majority of governorship. tea party back republicans in florida and ohio and pennsylvania and wisconsin and south carolina and on and on. the tea party was powerful the it was unstoppable. just a little while later on tea day eve, people are wondering what happened to them? a.p. asking what's become of the tea party. i love this. the group leader asked the assembled members, are we dead? answer, we're persistent and we communicate with each other and when it comes time to vote we'll definitely pull the ballot lever. maybe what happened the they vot

we sent a zermg party out for the tea party, just ahead. according to the signs, ford is having some sort of big tire event. i just want to confirm a few things with fiona. how would you describe the event? it's big. no,i mean in terms of savings how would you sum it up? big in your own words, with respect to selection, what would you say? big okay, let's talk rebates mike, they're big they're big get $100 rebate, plus the low price tire guarantee during the big tire event. so, in other words, we can agree that ford's tire event is a good size? big big has been because of the teachers and the education that i had. they're just part of who i am. she convinced me that there was no limit to what we could learn. i don't think i'd be here today had i not had a wonderful science teacher. a teacher can make a huge difference in a child's life. he would never give up on any of us. thank you dr. newfield. you had a big impact on me. >>> yetd on my show, we played a piece of tape of mitt romney that's gotten a lot of attention. it's mitt romney in hi

. >> an sos and present the tea party and the authors examined several regional tea party offers and they are predominantly middle-class older americans who according to the authors mostly enjoy medicare and social security benefit that are reticent to pay taxes to assist those they deem undeserving. this is about an hour. [applause] thank you. we are delighted to be here in durham, north carolina today and look forward to a lively discussion after we introduce discussion in our book. just to remind you all, the tea party and its contemporary manifestation, first arm being very rapidly and amazingly, just weeks after barack obama was inaugurated as president of the united states following an election that itself was rather amazing in history. on february 192,009, rick santelli, commentator on cnbc went into west indies gained our rants announcing obama administration policies to help underwater mortgage holders that they called losers. he invoked the founding fathers to talk about that they would feel at all that americans are too sealed what was happening to our country. at the end

but they're just calling themselves tea party groups. they are not the tea party. the tea party as ordinary people living in your neighborhood. >> host: neck is regina and berkeley, california. >> caller: hi, how are you? i am enjoying your show. i wanted to -- ms. foley, some of the process that i've seen in my neighborhood appear to be angry, confrontational as well as angry. and i am wondering icy racist image as in their protests and i am wondering why that is. and a smile, i would like to know, i tried to understand their issues and what they're about and i think he gave an excellent explanation of that today. but why do they not -- do they associate with the 99%? and if so -- if not, why not? 99% versus the 1%? of the 99% would be all the rest of the public is opposed to the 1% of wealthy people? >> guest: i assume that she party does not consider itself to be aligned with the 1% of the wealthiest americans because they are not in the top 1% of wealthy americans. i'm not sure what matters. >> host: have a angry computational? >> guest: the fact the constituti

the tea party. yes, the tea party. forcing long time senator orrin hatch to fight for his political future. the utah republican must now face off against a former state senator, dan lilenquist after failing to win enough votes at this weekend's state convention and the group says hatch had not shown enough loyalty when it comes to conservative values and, is the tea party muscling back and did it ever leave? what kind of role do we expect the movement to play in november? joining us now, washington times columnist, charlie hurt. always great to have you here. sunday morning. >> good to be with you. >> jamie: how is the tea party doing and what kind of influence do you expect them to have in this race as well as others? >> the tea party, the rodney dangerfield of political parties, they just can't seem to ever get any respect. and everybody is always trying to predict their demise and as we see, right now, they've kind of predicted it, a little early. they've forced a primary out in utah. and, they are giving dick luger

party, "tea party: three principles." you make the point that the tea party is not a party, it is a movement. what's the distinction that's worth knowing about? >> guest: well, yeah. it's not the party in the sense that it has no interest in anointing some sort of central leader. it really is a movement that's defined by what i talk about in the book, three very clear, very old constitutional principles. so you've noticed that the tea party, you know, through the november 2010 elections and continuing to today has been sort of ruthless about throwing its support behind candidates who espouse these principles, and they don't really care much whether those candidates have an r or d after their name, and they certainly don't seem to care that they might be well-entrenched, well-funded incumbent republicans. all they care about is getting their principles embraced by our politicians. >> host: and, in fact, the -- you say the media makes a mistake by thinking that the tea party is nonexistent in this cycle, that because we don

i have met a lot of people in the tea party. i do not believe all of them are the proponents of them are racist. but is there an element to that? i would say the content we have seen for president obama cannot be attributed to anything other than that. >> if not his race, what is the content based upon? as much as king ridge and clinton did not get along, they got stuff done together? what is this contempt based upon, if not race? >> let us recall, kravis, 0 -- tavis, when bill clinton was president, all the slick willie stuff said about him, accusing him of being involved in a friend's suicide. i think what is different is not so much the difference in skin color. i think it is the difference in the political climate, where people are whipped up into more of a frenzy by the media, by blogs and outside groups. division is rewarded these days. conversely, moderation is not. people who try to reach across the aisle, who tried to get things done, 10 to get punished. there is a striking moment in my book about a republican congressw

like he may not be the tea party's guy in an interview with a conservative daily caller the party nation leader judson phillips at a message for the presumptive nominee saying the tea party is not going to coalesce around romney most of us will vote for romney but we will not be out there was signs for him or his campaign course after romney shakes the etch a sketch and portrays him soft as a moderate against president obama in the general election then even the tea party vote smart not be a guarantee anymore but this may have an upside for romney a recent washington post a.b.c. news poll finds that a plurality of americans forty five percent now disapprove of the tea party and the more americans hear about tea party policies like ending social security the more they dislike it so what does this mean for mitt romney in the tea party in american politics moving forward that's an phillips joins me now to offer his take he is the founder of tea party nation judge them welcome tom thank you for inviting me to meet you in person like what i thought thank you what can mitt romney expect from t

the date in the tea party assent starting in 2009, saw tax day turn into tea party day. more than 300 is how many locations saw rallies across the nation in all 50 states, with participant levels estimated at hundreds of thousands of participa participants. 311,460 people, according to nate silver, now with "the new york times," and the 24/7 breaking news national coverage, from this network and others, all there to cover it. and the mad as hell, i'm not going to take it anymore spirit behind the movement, carried it through the regular news cycle and all the way into the voting booth the next year to limited success. 32% in the great republican congressional takeover of 2010, the percentage of candidates claiming the tea party label that won house or senate seats in the november mid term election, which led to 60, how many house members were in the tea party caucus as of july 2011. the last time their founding updated the list on her website and that founder, one michele bachmann, ran for president as you might recall. how many of the five dozen tea party caucus members

the tea party was powerful, the tea party wasn't stoppable. just a little while later on tax day eve, people are wondering what happened to them? ap asking, quote, three years later what's become of the tea party? i love this scene from a tea party meeting in san antonio. the group leader asked the assembled members, are we dead? answer, we're persistent and we communicate with each other and when it comes time to vote we'll definitely pull the ballot lever. maybe what happened to the tea party is they voted and they won. if you want to find the tea party now, you can just call a legislator. like the otherwise not very important jeff landry, freshman republican of louisiana who would like mitt romney the party's standard bearer to know just who is in charge. quoting mr. landry, we're not a cheerleading squad. we're the conductor. we're supposed to drive the train. maybe what the tea party needs now is an inside outsider, a person who can ring bells in washington without holding office. maybe what they need is an inside outsider like herman cai

of the tea party. it's worth noting in terms of fostering, if tension more than anything else, eric cantor pouring $25,000 to a republican group that is focused on defeating other republicans and you talk about the split between boehner and cantor in congress, i think that this is evidence of just how the old and the new aren't mixing very well. but s.e., you say no? >> well, i'm not going to disagree there's clearly a rift. but maybe it's a well-designed rift. maybe it's these two folks playing good cop, bad cop. one speaking to one group, one is speaking to another. >> there's strategy behind this. >> it's amazing -- >> i don't know if it's working well. >> it's amazing that idea of someone in the congressional leadship should be backing primary challenges against his members is unprecedented. it really is an incredible thing. >> that's a strategy, it's an interesting one. >> i think it's a scorched earth strategy. >>> a new book calls a number of people living alone the biggest um named social chall

. >> this particular tea party group, this peach tea party group, is a coalition of a bunch of different conservative groups including georgia right to life. the phrase tea party become the name you can attach to any conservative organization these days? >> yes. i think that's exactly what happened ithis case. georgia right to life basic created the peach tea party and just took the tea party name and attached it to social causes. >> it's being really aggressive specifically on the issue of abortion. i highlighted the case of that

is the tea party dead. >> the tea party is strong as ever. the issue is the level of enthusiasm for mitt romney. the conservative grassroots in this country is stronger than it's ever been. but the problem is they don't like romney. the capacity is there but they just don't have their man. obama had the same thing, maybe worse on the other side, michael. his base is even less than enthusiastic because of the war the mideast policy, gay issues. they're even further away from their candidate. no question about it, the conservatives like me, we don't like romney but we're going to back him all the way. santorum will back him. gingrich will back him. it's under negotiation. they want more tv, more power at the convention and he'll give it to him. >> jack, i hear what you're saying, but last year all the way through this year everyone was talking about the luke warm reception of mitt romney. conservatives don't want to back him. but they're going to back him because they're more motivated by beating obama. but when you see this, you can say what y

party because the tea party has damaged the republican brand. has it, lz, or a passing phase? >> no, it has damaged it. i wrote a piece for cnn.com last year where i talked about john boehner looked weak because it seemed as his actions were being dictated by a bunch of freshmen coming in with the tea party. i couldn't imagine a more horrific scenario than watching your party kidnapped by a bunch of people who didn't know the heck what they were doing. i think part of the reason they lost steam is because they found the same thing that president obama found three years ago, that changing washington from the outside/in sounds good but once you actually get there, it's a lot more difficult and takes a lot more effort and you have to play as rick santorum would say, team ball in order to get things done and what they really faced was the reality that the establishment is the establishment and that if you're going to be a part of change, you have to first get with the program. >> let's note forget the purple of the tea party was to damage the republ

the tea party is advocating limiting national service. president obama campaigned to expand to 250,000. senator kennedy helped to pass the expansion. i was wondering what role "the nation" can play in helping to support the program. >> we've done a lot of work around expanding doctors into rural community centers. americorps is a good program. all of those should be supported. we have not done as much. there has been controversy at the magazine. i am more of a supporter of teach for america than my colleagues. they are good programs. >> what could we do collectively as the next up for occupy wall street? -- next step for occupy wall street? >> what is your main interest in the issues raised by occupy wall street? if it is money and politics, you should join with those who are occupying the supreme court, fighting in states for clean money reform, and fighting for an amendment strategy to overturn the citizens united decision, and fighting in elections to change the supreme court. >> what would you think of having a national general assemb

like he may not be the tea party's guy in an interview with a conservative daily caller the party nation leader judson phillips had a message for the presumptive nominee saying the tea party is not going to coalesce around romney most of us will vote for romney but we will not be out there with signs for him or his campaign course after romney shakes the etch a sketch and portray himself as a moderate against president obama in the general election then even the tea party vote smart idea here and but this may have an upside for romney a recent washington post a.b.c. news poll finds that a plurality of americans forty five percent now disapprove of the tea party and the more americans hear about tea party policies like and social security the more they dislike it so what does this mean for mitt romney in the tea party in american politics moving forward that's in philips joins me now to offer his take he is the founder of tea party nation judson welcome tom thank you for inviting me to meet you in person like what i saw thank you what can mitt romney expect from the tea party. a good ques

georgia right to life basic created the peach tea party and just took the tea party name and attached it to social causes. >> it's being really aggressive specifically on the issue of abortion. i highlighted the case of that one republican representative because it seems to me the fact that he voted ultimately yes on the bill, that the amendment that he sought didn't gut the bill in any way and came from a personal and pretty understandable place. to be against him and determined to primary him for that seems to be almost unusually dock tri nar. is this something i don't understand about the way georgia politics is played or is this new for georgia? >> it'relavely new. you may recall karen handle ran for governor igeorgia two years ago as a republican. she got defeated because she was deemed to be insufficiently ardent about right to life issues. she supported exceptions for rape and incest. she supported in vitro fertilization. you can't be for those things in georgia and get the endorsement of georgia right to life. she lost the primary because of that. >> that kind of litmus test,

mitten was confirmed -- >> but then the tea party was not there in those days. >> well the tea party doesn't control the senate. we ought to reject some nominees who won't answer any questions, but i think you would have had smooth sailing. >> let me ask you -- you are so funny. let's -- listen i want to ask you a different question about whether democrats -- in your opinion -- do you think that democrats are benefiting from the republican's lurch to the right? >> oh absolutely jennifer. romney has moved so far to the right, i think bill maher, the comedian had it might on satire when he said that romney has changed to being a drag queen. look, you said i was funny. i'm trying to stand up now. >> it is totally great. you are getting the whole studio laughing here. i just want you to know. >> that's good. >> that is good. >> listen if you can make people laugh you can get them to listen jennifer. >> that is totally true senator. thank you so much for joining us inside "the war room." >> "life among the cannibals," amazon.com. >> it's a good one. and i just finished reading it today. f

mitten was confirmed -- >> but then the tea party was not there in those days. >> well, the tea party doesn't control the senate. we ought to reject some nominees who won't answer any questions, but i think you would have had smooth sailing. >> let me ask you -- you are so funny. let's -- listen, i want to ask you a different question about whether democrats -- in your opinion -- do you think that democrats are benefiting from the republican's lurch to the right? >> oh, absolutely jennifer. romney has moved so far to the right, i think bill maher, the comedian had it might on satire when he said that romney has changed to being a drag queen. look, you said i was funny. i'm trying to stand up now. >> it is totally great. you are getting the whole studio laughing here. i just want you to know. >> that's good. >> that is good. >> listen, if you can make people laugh you can get them to listen, jennifer. >> that is totally true senator. thank you so much for joining us inside "the war room." >> "life among the cannibals," amazon.com. >> it's a good one. and i just finished reading it toda

party in the last year or so the question is the tea party dead or will billionaires like the koch spring all those buses out of retirement revive the thing in two thousand and twelve this one time for the elections are we going to see you know a couple of dozen of these three hundred thousand dollar busses running around the country and those those buses were there to transport people who were why. to get on them and wanted to get around and so i don't think it mattered what i made for they want to really not a four hour much the buses cost how many you have because i don't think there's going to be anybody to get on that i my my sense is that the party is pretty disillusioned i mean they elected a giant freshman class in the house which with the exception of just over a dozen approved reauthorization of the patriot act some of the people who were elected as tea party candidates have sort of just they've taken up the banner of big government i mean allen west said the repealing obamacare was an issue for him marco rubio gave a speech to the brookings institution today saying that he thou

the tea party suggests that the tea party is not going to have the same clout in the 2010 election. in fact, the greatest effect of sort of making the old establishment adapt. can we put out your e-mail address. they want to react. thank you. the health care case attracted a record number of friends. 230, they said it's unconstitutional because brakbrakbrak >> when -- barack obama. >> with all the bad news why is barack obama looking so strong in the key tate states he needs to win? chris: welcome backs. new polls are out this weekend for key states to determine who wins the white house. as you can see there, barack obama is way you. there is a new development which brings us to this big question. with all the because news out there, why is the president doing so well in the swing states? dan? >> i think the debates hurt the republicans ooh greel. they felt they could attack one another. for most people we crossed the birth control issue along time ago. the biggest thing is economy. but the economic indicators more than anything else that's what we're flexing it. there are so many p

georgia right to life basic created the peach tea party and just took the tea party name and attached it to social causes. >> it's being really aggressive specifically on the issue of abortion. i highlighted the case of that one republican representative because it seems to me the fact that he voted ultimately yes on the bill, that the amendment that he sought didn't gut the bill in any way and came from a personal and pretty understandable place. to be against him and determined to primary him for that seems to be almost unusually dock tri nar. is this something i don't understand about the way georgia politics is played or is this new for georgia? >> it's relatively new. you may recall karen handle ran for governor in georgia two years ago as a republican. she got defeated because she was deemed to be insufficiently ardent about right to life issues. she supported exceptions for rape and incest. she supported in vitro fertilization. you can't be for those things in georgia and get the endorsement of georgia right to life. she lost the primary because of that. >> that kind of litmus

. >> talking about the tea party, and the idea, i think in some corners, the tea parties are the incumbents and the uncomfortable position they are in, looking towards november. i want to read you this quote from gop committee man bill crocker on the tea party members. it's just -- lessons learned -- it's just learning that everybody who is in government is not evil, that we've got really good people in government. let's don't burn the barn down to get rid of the rats. number two, there's a way to get thing donz and a way where you can work hard and not get anything done. an amazing statement, coming from one in the tea party. let's not burn the barn down to get the rats out. is this just -- where does the tea party go from here? that's the question, in november. they are running as incumbents, they got nothing done, was their excuse for getting reeleaked? >> the issue is the counterrevolution has arrived. mitt romney's nobody's idea of a tea party. if you saw him at these tea party events his people would stand people here, the tea partiers would stand here and eye each other suspiciously.

is the tea party dead. >> the tea party is strong as ever. the issue is the level of enthusiasm for mitt romney. the conservative grassroots in this country is stronger than it's ever been. but the problem is they don't like romney. the capacity is there but they just don't have their man. obama had the same thing maybe worse on the other side, michael. his base is even less than enthusiastic because of the war the mideast policy, gay issues. they're even further away from their candidate. no question about it, the conservatives like me, we don't like romney but we're going to back him all the way. santorum will back him. gingrich will back him. it's under negotiation. they want more tv, more power at the convention and he'll give it to him. >> jack, i hear what you're saying, but last year all the way through this year everyone was talking about the luke warm reception of mitt romney. conservatives don't want to back him. but they're going to back him because they're more motivated by beating obama. but when you see this, you can say what yo

of how obama fought against boehner, cantor and the tea party. david, thanks for being here. >> great. thanks for having me. >> now what is the president's strategy for the tea party? >> the interesting thing, this book shows what was going on in the white house after that disastrous november 2010 loss in the congressional elections. up until the beginning of this campaign. it is all sort of inside the white house fly on the wall narrative stories. in the book, i sort of show how the president, of that dizast trous loss sort of came up with the strategy with his aides as well, on how to sortç of come back. how to rejuvenate. how do get his groove back, in a way. a lot of it was predicated on the tea party republicans in the house lead by john boehner and doing too much. you remember back in 2011 a year ago when he we had the fight over the budget that led to the fight of the debt ceiling. president obama kind of laid low. letting ryan come out with his budget first and he didn't really engage a lot on the back and forth details of the budget fi

the independence hall tea party pac. you guys were the first tea party pac in the nation to endorse me and i appreciate your help. thank you. and michael i appreciate you bringing tea party members from the tristate area together and i just heard senator joe ka ril lows he's going to be a u.s. senator soon. i look forward to working with that guy. he's a terrific guy. thanks, joe. appreciate you being here. thank you. now i am asked from time to time what it is like running for president. i had not expected to have the great privilege doing this and i find myself having the time of my life. there are challenges and days you get beat up in the newspaper and you don't worry about it because you don't read them. instead you talk anne and i do about the great experiences we've had and the people we've met. and the good news is that america is not just made up of the people you see on the news who by and large have done something unusual that's why they're in the news. and typically that we've done has not been real good and

you see i told that the tea part movement is dead. >> reporter: the tea party movement came to life and republican candidates came to court their support. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: after watching the tea party movement and social conservative support candidates other than the presumed presidential nominee mitt romney's the challenge to make sure that those who supported more conservative candidates participate in september. >> iknow that romney isn't perfect. ronn paul isn't perfect or newt gingrich isn't perfect, but those are the guys guys. >> reporter: social conservatives are going to have to to come to grips with you are going to be motivated to vote? >> reporter: the republicans realize that they need to reenergize. >> now that the stakes of this election become more clear, especially with the impending supreme court decision, i think you will see them come back to life and make a big difference in this election like they did in 2010. >> reporter: republican candidates are counting on a tea party that came back to life with all the fervor that they provided. >> they won

party in the last year or so the question is the tea party dead or will billionaires like the koch spring all those buses out of retirement revive the thing in two thousand and twelve this one time for the elections are we going to see you know a couple of dozen of these three hundred thousand dollars buses run around the country and those those buses were there to transport people who were why. to get on them and wanted to get around and so i don't think it matters what i mean for they want to really know how to be for our much the buses cost how many you have because i don't think there's going to be anybody to get on that i my my sense is that the party is pretty disillusioned i mean they elected a giant freshman class in the house which with the exception of just over a dozen approved reauthorization of the patriot act some of the people who were elected as tea party candidates have sort of just they've taken up the banner of big government i mean allen west said the repealing obamacare was an issue for him marco rubio gave a speech to the brookings institution today saying that he th

. >> and tea party is put to the test in a hot senate primary. can they defeat a political giant? >> molly: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. another week and another. >> patti ann:. it's the secret reeling from a vs. >>> the situation has become an election year embarrassment for the white house and follows the revelations that the general services administration sponsored a junket to las vegas in 2010 that cost taxpayers close to a million dollars. both scandals play into the narrative of a bloated and dysfunctional federal government. is that fair? let's ask "wall street journal" columnist, dan henninger. james freeman and dorothy rabinowitz. >> incompetence in government is not knew new. so why does it trouble you? >> it is troubling, it's fascinating and it's not incompetence. it's an absolute loss of the mystique of many of the important things that were connected with governance, with the white house. everything that we used. space of the security detail. these guys with the backpacks that were the heroes. >> the sense they were the elite. >> they wer

>> i still think the tea party has influence inside the party. i think if you look at the way people run for office and try to posture themselves and the way people try to move themselves, it's all in relationship to the sense that the tea party is a powerful force within the party and you can't cross it. you can argue that there's always been for the last x years, five, ten years a conservative part of the party that politicians have had to worry about in primaries and primary fights are more important but overall i think as louis suggests the influence of the tea party at large is less than than it was. >> occupy wall street movement, a majority said it has run its course. with tea party, 43%. not majority saying it had run its course. one argument that the republican side of our poll said is the president has adopted the occupy rhetoric a little bit and fairness argument and that maybe that's why people see it. >> it's part of it. i also think that the tea party is a more cohesive political force. there are people running as tea party candidat

the big engine is the tea party. correct? the tea party likes rubio. does that make a difference in >> you can't be elected president just with the tea party. they have the tea party. >> that is one of the miss. romney had a huge problem with the very conservative voters that will be with him no matter what. mitt romney does not need a choice that shores up the state. >> they have to be motivated by their hay dread of obama. he is go to guy now for republicans on trying to tweak the dream act so they vote for it. what he wants to do is offer kids who were brought here illegally by their parents. student vie a is a -- visa to go to school. it's a more palettable way to give legitimate city to people. >> the ax >>> this businessman people assume because of that somehow he will bring some magic elixir to the economy. when they get under the hood and see what he is proposing more massive tax cuts for the wealthy. fewer rules for wall street. deep cuts in the things we need to grow, education, research and development and energy. people this movie before an

what a welcome, tea party. thank to you this group, i owe a special thanks, the independence hall tea party pac, all right? you guys were the first tea party pac in the nation to endorse me and i appreciate your help. thank you. michael, i appreciate you bringing tea party members from the tristate area. and thanks, joe, i appreciate your being here. thank you. >> now, i am asked from him what it is like running for president. i had not expected to have the great privilege of doing this and i find myself having the time of my life. yeah, there are challenges and there are days that you get beat up in the newspaper and you don't worry about it because you don't read 'em. and instead -- ann and i do amongst ourselves about the great experiences we've had and the people we've met. and the good news is that america is not just made up of the people up see on the news who by and large have done something unusual, that's why they're in the news. typically what they've done is not so good and that's why they're in the

georgia right to life basically created the peach tea party. and just took the sea party name and attached it to social causes. >> the tea party coalition is being really aggressive, specifically on the issue of abortion. i highlighted the case of the one republican representative because it seems to me the fact he voted ultimately yes on the bill the amendment he sought didn't gut the bill in any way and came from a personal, understandable place. to be against him and to be determined to primary him for that seems to be almt unusually doctrine air. is this new for georgia or something i don't understand how georgia politics is played? >> this is relatively new. you may recall karen handle who is with coe man for the cure. she ran for governor in georgia as a republican two years ago. she got defeated this the republicanrimary because she was deemed to be insufficiently ardened about right to life issues she supported exceptions for rape and incest. she supported invitro fertilization. and those are -- you can't be for those things in georgia