andrew sullivan, amazing piece. i will read it several times. >> thank you. >> ari melber, thank you. >>> up next, it took a wild ending to last night's packers/seahawks game to get wisconsin governor scott walker to finally side with union workers. that's next in the "sideshow." yeah, i'm looking to save, but i'm not sure which policy is right for me. you should try our coverage checker. it helps you see if you have too much coverage or not enough, making it easier to get what you need. [ beeping ] these are great! [ beeping ] how are you, um, how are you doing? i'm going to keep looking over here. probably a good idea. ken: what's a good idea? nothing. with coverage checker, it's easy to find your perfect policy. visit progressive.com today. >>> back to "hardball." a lot of buzz about that refs' call in last night's game between the packers and the seahawks. >> final play. wilson lob to the end zone. which is fumbled by tate with jennings simultaneous. who was it? who did they give it to? touchdown! >> well, you s

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and i think that, so it wasn't so much, you know, jonathan and andrew sullivan and others argued for this and everyone sort of read the arguments and were convinced and coddled. i think they were responding to something that was already a real desire within the community. and it corresponds to a universal human desire for companionship, for intimacy, for love. >> host: what do you think is different about, you talked about the groundwork for what's missing between same-sex and opposite sex relationship, and let's leave the lesbians out of that, what have you observed -- ivc of relatives and family and friends who are in opposite sex relationships. there's a lot of ways in which it's the same, how do you think they are different? >> guest: how do i think the opposite sex -- >> host: like loving across the gender divide. >> guest: i think the fact that different sex relationships can create new life. it's something that you talk about in the book, something that i acknowledge in the book, that a relationship which has the capacity for doing that, that makes the relationship fraught, tr

i want to bring in a blogger, andrew sullivan from the daily beast. andrewsullivan.com is his website. what do you make of what happened at the republican convention? you're a conservative. but you're supporting obama. you also wrote a really interesting article about what you think he needs to do next week. >> obama? >> obama to change the narrative. you think he actually needs to come much more to the middle. >> i think he's already in the middle but i think he needs to make it much more explicit. i think the key thing he needs to do is persuade independents and people in the middle of the road that he's dead serious about the debt and paul ryan and mitt romney are not serious about the debt. >> you think the way to do that is by reembracing simpson/boels? >> yes, by saying that what i want to do is a grand compromise and get the democrats to agree to cut medicare and entitlements and get the republicans to agree to raise some revenues in taxes and trimming the defense and if we can all do that together, and the sunset of the bush tax cuts will help

andrew sullivan of the daily beast suggests romney's response to all of this makes him unfit, sullivan'sof running the country. sullivan lays out the reasons he thinks romney ought to be disqualified from being president including romney's knee-jerk judgments based on ideology and not reality. his inability to back down when he said sothing wrong. and his argument that president obama sympathized with the murderers of america's ambassador to libya. criticizing america's u.s. commander in chief while u.s. interests are still under attack and americans were dying comes off as amateurish and unpresidential and could be political suicide for romney in the long run. it is times like these when an unguarded comment can leave a lasting impression. compare romney's response to how the 1980 republican candidates for president reacted to the iran hostage crisis under president carter. as the atlantic points out, when news broke that an effort to rescue the american hostages in tehran had failed, ronald reagan said "this is the time for us as a nation and a people to stand united." and george h.w.