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Co-opted the message from his rivals. they point out, remember the tax plan? romney has been forced to make his own tax plan. what will this do with the other candidates if fox decides to go by the recent numbers? what will he force them to do to get in the game? >> i think there is a fork in the road for candidates whose last name isn't trump. and it's really a character test for them. some of them like governor bush, can say they understand the frustration people have looking at illegal immigration, but they can talk about the divisiveness of his rhetoric and they can reassert what their pos...

He can be prickly, i think as anyone who knows him, would admit. part of the attack on chuck hagel, especially the accusations of anti-semitism are offensive in nature in that they're thrown out there very often by unnamed people on behalf of groups. and i'm wondering what impact, if any, do you think this has on the dialogue about whether he gets defense? >> well, i think your point about his service in vietnam can trump a lot. and i think the reality is that this is not a moral test. this is not a character test. these are some policy differences. he's got differences with republicans not on...

Very difficult to prepare for. it's the strangest character test that, you know, has ever been devised by man. but the exercise of trying to gain support for your cause is necessary that the president ultimately has the ability to demonstrate an ability to do that to unite the nation if a crisis comes. and that's what this is all about. so tonight mitt romney's going to let us in a little bit more to who he really is. and i think that as you've heard some of the people talk to him that the obama campaign, which i think has been very effective at turning him into a cartoon character over the co...

The president should be tried for treason and he didn't say anything about it. he got a question about rush limbaugh's comments about -- those aren't the words that i would have used. he has failed the character test on this time and again. >> i want you to listen to some more from romney today, listen to this on education. >> here we are in the most prosperous nation on earth, but millions of our kids are getting a third world education and america's minority children suffer the most. this is the civil rights issue of our era. >> e.j., what does a man who went to harvard know about public edu...

Character. i mean he had a woman stand up in his town hall and say that the president should be tried for treason and he didn't say anything about it. he got a question about rush limbau limbaugh's comments about -- those aren't the words that i would have used. he has failed the character test on this time and again. >> i want you to listen to some more from romney today, listen to this on education. >> here we are in the most prosperous nation on earth, but millions of our kids are getting a third world education and america's minority children suffer the most. this is the civil rights issue...