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Romney looks to me to be the inevitable nominee. but he looks after february, a weakened nominee, spending money -- he is using up his donors. secondly, driving up his negatives with independents and women voters. >> chris: bill, wrap this part of the panel up. your thoughts about super tuesday? >> ohio's key. think of it this way -- if santorum wins ohio, he will win oklahoma and tennessee and won 3 of the 6 big states and romney will win, massachusetts and virginia, where santorrum and gingrich are not on the ballot. gingrich will win in georgia. that's a big difference f. romney wins 2 of t...

Israel. >> chris: and the problem is? >> the administration has undermined israel and it has leaked that its goal is to stop israel from engaging on iran. that has diminished israel's leverage in that region. >> i don't think it's to stop israel, it's to say to israel that the united states is israel's prime ally -- the super power in the world and ising willing to help. i think that bill kristol makes the point, the u.s. can take more time because they have greater capacity, but they have to quiet israel's fears that could, in the absence of real steps by iran to develop nuclear weapon, lead ...

But romney continues to eat away at the lead, which was in double digits just before the michigan primary. jeff, how is super tuesday shaping up? and what do you think of the possibility that it will really sort out who will win the nomination? >> i don't think mathematically it will sort this out. but i think politically, it will begin to sort things out. we are already sort of seeing this. it is all about ohio. apologies to the other states, like oklahoma, which has more delegates than massachusetts. but ohio has become the bellwether here, which is a challenge for the romney campaign. if th...