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Was down there today talking to officials out of this. what they got was the romney campaign to repudiate this. and the extent it was going to be part of the campaign, its not anymore. >> john, i think john mccain was a key player in the way this unfolded today. in this plan they specifically site the ad that mccain refused to run last time around and how he should have run it. and he was a clown not to. lets look at the ad john mccain refused to run. the thing these guys would have run. >> long...

Is christian and not muslim. then it brings up doubts especially from social conservatives about the mormonism. theres a way this could backfire on romney as well as the super pac thats trying to inject racial fear into this election. >> john, i think of myself as the white metrosexual abe lincoln. whats their complaint there? what is it they dont like about metrosexual or abe lincoln? it cant be that they dont like black. that couldnt be it. >> no. lawrence, not at all. i think i view that way ...

It. he would make, as he put it, the same kind of decision today that he made in 2008. this afternoon when romney was ready to stake out his position on the metrosexual black abe lincoln, he really had no choice. >> on the aircraft this morning i was asked by someone here about whether i had seen the new york times article with regards to a pac that was presumably being formed to attack president obama and if i had a reaction to it. i had not seen the article at that point. but i read the articl...

That effort. i think its the wrong course for a pac or a campaign. >> joining me now is john haur. and karen finney and dorian warren. former senator mccain adviser mark salter told abc news what i think everybody can maybe figure out is that this was leaked probably by someone who wanted to stop it from happening. he said any day spent on anything spent on it is a wasted day. karen finney, would this plan in your judgment have been stopped if it had not been leaked ahead of time? >>. >> it sure...

In fact, i think theres a way in which both romney and this effort to inject race and wright back into the campaign could backfire for romney. because it reintroduces people to reverend wright which reminds voters by the way the president is christian and not muslim. then it brings up doubts especially from social conservatives about the mormoni mormonism. theres a way this could backfire on romney as well as the super pac thats trying to inject racial fear into this election. >> john, i think o...