if anything, i've been anticipating that mitt romney will do something very conservati, not politicallyonsvati, buvery consvati in rms the seleion. >> tt's ght. a fe cice. nothg ceainlto oraci the angecal se, ich sompornt itermof ergy. i talked to some top evangelicals today and they were taing about this idea that it could be cdolea rice, >> a-maka, ank u. >> coming up next, many who look like disney characters. that comg up i thehed sh." yore wchin ardbl" on msnb thelaceor pitic > ba to ardbl." now r th"sidhow." first off, there was no shortage of outrage last week when the reblican governor maine blted esidtama' hlth re pn sang, "you musuy heal insancerayhe new geapo, the irs." that's right hitler's secret police during the holocat. he later apologized but talking pauhineyestday, he iveld fr bking off his mmen tooublg do. >>hat m trng tsay th theolocst w a horric cme ainstumany and, frankly, i would ver want to see that repeated. maybe e irs is not quite as bad yet. >>o yore sing e iris adedn thdireion the gesto? doou he a nse whathe stapactuly d durg worlwar ? >> yeah, they killed a

at the same time, we have mitt romney, some would say twisting himself, some conservati republicans would say twisting himself into a pretzel over this whole issue. >> i think, andrea, let's go thursday to thursday. so, it's only a week ago. it seems like a lot longer, though. it's only a week ago that the supreme court ruling on the health care law came out. so, the last seven days i think clearly have been good for barack obama and bad for mitt romney. romney struggled, i think, to find his messaging.ç eric fehrnstrom with chuck saying it was a penalty, not a tax. mitt romney kind of correcting, saying it's a tax, trying to get on the right side of the issue. i think in general, we've seen over the last seven days the romney team caught a little bit by surprise on the ruling, not that the supreme court upheld the law but the way that they upheld the law, that they ruled the individual mandate unconstitutional under the commerce clause but said that congress's right to tax means it can stand. i think that caught the romney campaign by surprise it was not one of the likely scenarios that

. >> the mother of three would rather be known for her brand of conservati conservatism, rooted in her>> and her haitian parent's immigrant upbringing. >> i am a product of the american dream. >> she would vote to shrink programs aimed at reducing poverty, simplify the tax code and overall popular programs. >> i think my opponent represents views that are way out there. >> for 12 years congressman has repped the most republican district held by a democrat. he is the son of a former governor and at mids that love's story is compelling but not her politics. >> i don't think utah families want someone who says we should stop doing student loans. >> there is a sense by some of the mormon republican voters that electing a black republican woman would demonstrate whatever people say about mormons is maybe not so true. >> she is used to sloging uphill and knows this will be a long hard race. >> i might say she is about a little better than that. it's a tough new district. they redrew it in a way to make it harder for matheson to hold on. >> you were a decent runner. >> that was carefully edit

grasping on to this tax argument, and that is what appears to be of concern to a lot of theç leading conservatiectuals. there's kind of two streams of the conservative movement, sometimes when it comes to criticizing romney, sometimes it comes from the tea party, but sometimes insularly. so the "wall street journal," bill kristol, they were sort of in that role. and this goes to a couple things that as has been true about romney from the get-go. number one, he's just not a nimble candidate. when put off message, he struggles. he doesn't know how to deal with it, just doesn't understand how to call an audible, to use a sports term. second, it's a reminder we never litigated health care during the primaries, and he never had to go through this angst. and we see they were caught between two problems. one is his own health care record in massachusetts and the other is looking like a flip-flopper. those are two, both of which -- >> they're irreck kribl differences. >> irreconcilable, a rock and a hard place. eric fehrnstrom tried to create the line, walk a fine line. romney's trying to walk that fin

. >> i know that yesterday in ohio mitt romney said that his vp pick would be, quote, a true conservati conservative. any more word on that? do we know more about that? >> we're still waiting to hear on that. that's another thing that could change the conversation at least a little bit, although if it's not a surprising pick, the obama campaign will of course quickly try to get back to the narrative of who is mitt romney, is he out of touch with working class, with middle class americans? >> keith, who do you think he goes with? i like to play the vp stakes three or four times a day. >> rob portman, somebody who's safe and predictable and boring who fits into his script. i don't think he's going to go outside the box if he does the sarah palin thing to be a game changer. whoever they pick is going it to raise questions about his credibility and his decision making. he's got to make the choice, a good choice in order for him to be credible. >> hogan, how conservative -- go ahead. >> i was going to say, he makes a very valid point. i think until we solve this tax issue, until romney comes

one of the most strongest -- one of the most angry i guess you could say ideological aspects of conservatiow back have you received from conservatives since coming forward? >> a lot. i was just in the green room and i saw a tweet that said they were talking about me on fox so i switched to fox and they had a whole panel of people on their fox 5 show talking about how i duped everybody and i didn't believe it it was a joke and i was trying to scheme. i wasn't trying to scheme anybody. i changed my mind. they started making fun of me. one of the guys said if it was up to him he would have left me in the bo woods as a baby. daily caller they've written three articles about me wrote names about me i can't repeat on television at 5:00 in the afternoon. >> the reality most of us adopt the party initially, maybe the ideology as well of our parents and then the further you go in life the more time you have to sort things out. >> yeah. >> were your politics a couple years ago do you think a reflection of what youere hearing at home? >> i don't think it was much what i was hearing at home. my parent

convert medicare from the current form into a premium form -- and jindal is young and insigcites conservatiity, you think he ends up on the do no harm side. >> as well as he should, that ought to be doubled down on bland but i would disagree with one aspect, i think it will be what do you take away, make sure no one takes away and that means rob portman and possibly bobby jane dajindal, not a lot of ris >> portman is a fundamentally defensive pick. if they cannot win ohio on their own, that is a sign of peakness. romney should be able to win ohio but he is struggling there. it is more of an defensive than offensive pick to pick portman. >> we'll keep playing this game until he goes ahead and names somebody, won't we? >> we'll keep going after he names somebody. putting the pedal to the metal. this is ken block, he's a stunt driver and doing this -- it's called a gin cana in san francisco. this is -- >> this is like steve mcqueen. >> also, tomorrow, on "starting point," i go swimming with sharks and richard branson. yes, that would be me with a shark. that's a whale shark. took a little gett

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