roger simon joins me now to talk about his article.for your time. >> thanks for asking me. >> well, obviously, we've had many republicans on and you see them on msbc and michael steele and the west say they're really happy this is a weed out process. this is how you get the best candidate to face off against the president in november. >> well, that's what they say on tv. that's how it's supposed to work. it's supposed to be darwinian, the survival of the fittest. the strong eat the weak. but we've eaten the weak for quite awhile now. and we're still looking for that strong republican. the race has gotten down to ron paul, newt gingrich, rick santorum, and mitt romney. romney was the front-runner for week after week after week. now rick santorum is. but you find me a republican leader who privately will say, rick santorum is going to be the next president of the united states. they're not saying that. they're saying if we nominate rick santorum, we're going to lose 35 states. >> you write in your article that "mitt romney is hoping that

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we have beth, a political correspondent from the journal, wendy and roger simon, a political columnistfrom politico. it's great to have you with us. beth, i wantç to start with yo. this accommodation or compromise the white house will announce at 12:15. something that's going to appease both sides. do you think it's going to be the case or is this the type of situation where it leaves no one happy? >> planned parenthood put out a statement saying they can live with this compromise by the obama administration so as far as they are concerned, they are obviously willing to live with it. i'm not sure about the other side, if they will be satisfied. the republican party here at cpac sees this as a winning political issue. i'm sure they are going to try to get as much mileage out of it as they can. >> the consideration of the white house seems like a retreat on the issue. the archbishop of washington appeared on ""morning joe"" this morning. he said this about a compromise before we knew the details. take a listen. >> our concern is our basic freedom and i'm not sure it makes sense to say h

he benefitted because rick santorum, roger simon had this great line this morning that sounds like ricktorum went to the bob dole school of debating trying to figure out how you can talk in the most convoluted senatese you can. >> byron york last night said that this was a very bad night for the republican party. very depressing debate. wouldn't you agree? >> yeah, i think overall the big problem is that they're all kind of limping across the finish line, and this long dragged out primary is crippling the whole field making obama look a lot strong for the general election. >> i keep thinking, it's amazing to me, republican governor said yesterday, who was the genius that thought in a year when we were running against an incumbent president it was a good idea to elongate this process and guarantee the thing was going to go on for longer? it's not a dynamic that works well. >> yeah. >> especially given this crop. >> given the crop. >> jim vandehei, did you put this blog up on politico? >> did i myself put it up? >> no, did you it up -- >> well, if joe gets it filed on time -- i think i'm

simone. and jimmy p. we appreciate it. now, special guest. the question is still is romney bullish for the economy? here now is the always outspoken t.j. rogersthe great ceo of cypress semiconductor. t.j., let me just pick up where our panel left off. do you think that the public believes that mitt romney can make things better? i think the public thinks he's a good businessman. but do they trust him that he can get the job done to make things better? >> i think he needs to make the point more strongly that his business, the reason he made a bunch of money, his business was to take organizations that were sick, analyze what was wrong, fix them, and bring them back out as healthy companies. that's how he made all his money. and i don't think the average american understands what private equity is, what bain capital did. but i think he needs to let us, everybody understand that's what he does for a living, analyze problems and fix them. >> do you think he has made that case up to now, essentially selling bain capital, he was the ceo, it's a turnaround, this great troubled company of ours called the u.s. government inc. needs him? has he made th

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