finney, msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director and democratic strategist chris kofinis. chris, good to have you back with us. it's about time. >> thanks, ed. >> i want to play this for you. here's romney's senior adviser, with eric fernstrom, moments ago, talking about this. >> yeah, and that's disappointing. whenever there are voices of intolerance within the party or the democratic party, for that matter, it doesn't matter where it's coming from, it's disappointing. and the governor has taken the opportunity in the past to denounce those voices of intolerance. >> karen, can we believe this? >> of course not. i mean, they sent a very clear message that their party and their campaign is hostile to people who are openly gay, in the way they've sent the message they are hostile to women in the war on women issues, they are hostile to immigrants on the sb-1070 issues they are pushing, they are hostile to americans. and andrew sullivan is reporting last week on a conference call that was supposed to be in response to joe biden, grenell was told to be quiet. he was specifica

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now to recap the week that was is former response man for the gingrich campaign rick tyler and chris kofinismocrats strategist and former chief of staff for senator joe manchin. thank you for being here tonight. >> good to be here. >> eliot: everything is defined in terms of doing something that president obama did not do or has done. not an affirmative mention. does that make sense to you? will this create an affirmative appeal that governor romney needs? >> well, governor, i'm a little biased because we came up with the day one idea with newt gringrich a year ago. we were contemplating the rolling out the day one plan so i'm a little biased. you do need to contrast what you do with obama. he does this successfully. i will say that mitt romney has still failed to layout a compelling vision for what his presidency would be like, but this is a good start. >> eliot: i think you just touched on the last issue but counter punching in a counterpoint exclusively is not a vision. saying that i'm going to run a pipeline does not sound like you're running for president. when you're running pore presi

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