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Lies in realtime. but marie had out of the box pick. she wants to see the romney tax returns on that stage. and our facebook community is still talking about paul ryan's speech from last night. brenda says quote, mitt romney has a pre-existing ill nns, foot in mouth disease. who would have thought it was contagious? we want to hear what you think too. head over to facebook and search "politicsnation" and like us to join the conversation that keeps going long after the show ends. on car insurance? no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcyc...

Correspondent for the guardian. thank you both for joining me. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> david, is it too late for romney to try to fill in the blanks on his biography? >> i don't think it's too late to fill in the blanks. he needs to talk to a lot of people who don't know a lot of the details because as you mentioned, he doesn't talk about a lot of the details on the campaign trail. there are a lot of people just tuning in now. what i think is it's a tough call for him to try to make himself likable out of those details. that's been a problem for him going back years and years. it's somethi...

Way. which is the position he'll probably take and try to kick those down the road even farther. >> you wrote a piece saying ann romney connected pretty well, but it's not going to help him. how does he connect if he doesn't have that kind of personality, or do you think he does have it and he just hasn't revealed it yet? >> oh, i don't think he has it. i think he suffers from the al gore problem a bit which is no matter how charming he may be in private, in public he is very awkward and doesn't connect well. and what ann did was she came across very well. she told lovely stories about her. ev...

Of the gop, some of them would do like charlie crist does and say i'm ashamed where the party has taken me. >> jonathan, you're down in tampa and have seen the display, i call it an optical illusion on the stage. but the people in the audience and governor rendell is saying it's not diversity. how do they deal with the policies when they say we should be proud of the diversity on the stage but the policies don't in any way seem to appeal to people that are in those communities. >> well, keep in mind while the overall shots of people here in the hall are overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly old...

Republican governor. >> so if this is a video released today, if the obama campaign is going to use his flip-flopping in the fall, wouldn't that be a problem, erin? >> i suspect that they will use it more -- i think the point is that the obama campaign is trying to run a choice race between the different visions that we're seeing from president obama and from mitt romney. tonight's speech, i've seen the excerpts. he doesn't get into some of the nuances of policy. he's going to talk about his personal background. the flip-flopping charge may get addressed later this fall, but again the obama ca...