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Way to get their support. >> no, you don't. and there's certain things in the romney platform and what romney's been talking about that appeal to those voters on a substantive level. you don't have to do stuff like this. but the problem for romney is not white working class democrats. he's going to get his share of them. john mccain in pennsylvania, rev, four years ago carried 11 of the 12 southwestern democratic counties. lost the state by 11 points because he got clobbered in the philadelphia suburbs and the harrisburg suburbs. he got clobbered because he has nothing to say and nothing to ap...

>> we know rick santorum has talked about man-on-dog in the past. so he takes this issue very seriously. >> but you saw this coming. you wrote a column -- what was it, january, entitled "mitt romney's al gore problem." did you think it would take the form of a dog? >> you know, it does in so many different ways. i liken it to, he looks like a person and he sometimes acts like a person, but every once in a while, you realize there's a glitch in the matrix and he's not like everybody else and he's a bit of an alien. we had that with gore. we have it going on with romney now. his son just mention...

Would say the issues of character are important in this election. we need to look at all those issues and make a determination as to whether that's the kind of person you want to be president of the united states. >> joining me now, dana milbank. dana, issues of character, rick santorum answers with a straight face that the dog is a serious issue of character. >> we know rick santorum has talked about man-on-dog in the past. so he takes this issue very seriously. >> but you saw this coming. you wrote a column -- what was it, january, entitled "mitt romney's al gore problem." did you think it w...

Badly. the problem is there's no good answer. if we were to release the returns and people would see how extraordinarily wealthy he is and how little he's paid in taxes, that's not necessarily a better answer than him equivocating and hemming and hawing here. he's in in al gore trap. he's so worried about saying the wrong things. he's calculating before he says any word that comes out of his mouth and it leads to this mush coming out. it makes the problem worse the it's like this vicious cycle. >> that enhances the idea that he's the plastic, fantastic candidate. >> this is the al gore problem...

President of a country of people who doesn't make near that. >> seven times the average income for family. but he is speaking the way he thinks. >> he has got to stop doing that. >> every time we do what you're doing right now, we say learn how to talk regular american people. he gets more and more withdrawn. >> this goes back to his al gore problem. he's so afraid of what might come out of his mouth, he's thinking it through, which makes him make more mistakes, which is why you got that absurd clintonian qualification. >> but we know what he means. he has $215 million in net worth. he has 1% ...