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She thought allstate car insurance was out of her reach. until she heard about the value plan. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. welcome back to "politics nation." mitt romney wants republicans to know something. he's a conservative. really? he just couldn't stop telling people he's a conservative at the cpac conference today. >> i know conservatism because i have lived conservatism. i was a severely conservative republican governor. we conservatives believe in freedom. >> as conservatives, we're united by a set of core convictions. this must be our greatest hour as conse...

Enterpri enterprises. now, as conservatives we are united by a set of core convictions. not everyone has taken the same path to get here. there are college students at this conference who are reading burke and -- [ applause ] >> my guess is some of you have gotten here by reading burke and hyatt, you could have told me that they were infielders for the detroit tigers some of you work in think tanks or you follow some of the writings of the conservative writering in the past. i salute all of you in achieving your vision of conservatism. my path to conservatism came from my family, my faith and

it's the conservative political action conference in washington, d.c. i've got you there live right now. this is the vamp up, folks, to the big delegate leader, mitt romney. if you want to be the republican nominee for president, you'd better have your game face on when you come to cpac. and you better have cpac on your side, some say. there is a caveat to that. i'll get to that in a moment. any second now, as i said, we're expecting mitt romney, who's going to make his case from that podium to this audience. a critical audience. core conservatives in that audience. and the message h...

Getting around to releasing the tax returns for 2010, an estimate for 2011 tomorrow, he has been so weird about it. what is it about him and his wealth? >> well, this is an issue that goes back 18 years, back in the kennedy race we referred to, he challenged ted kennedy to release his tax returns, he said what have you got to hide. he said if you will show yours, i'll show mine. neither did release. it an issue he has been dealing many years. you mentioned the moment in the debate "maybe" in response to whether he would release his returns, that is the last word you want to use if people have ...

Your core convictions. you want to show absolute certainty. and he said yesterday this was a mistake and now will release a year of returns and an estimate of last year. it won't answer all the questions, obviously, when he was at bain capital. that goes way back '84 to '99. if we don't see those tax returns then there will still be questions about that. if he is the nominee in the general election, you can be sure the democrats will say what about those tax returns when you were at bain capital. >> yeah, scott is there something in his background, maybe not his lds religion but something that...