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Consolidating around a big front-runner, and i think if he has a good night tonight, that will start to happen. you'll see more endorsements, more money, people pressing santorum and gingrich to get out of the race simultaneously. i don't know that they'll get out, but i think it's basically over tonight if he performs up to where he could be. >> health care is coming back to haunt romney again. he's coming under fire for a 2009 op-ed arguing that the massachusetts health care plan he enacted as governor could be used as a polgds fmodel for the. this wasn't the only time romney spoke in favor ...

Ways, these guys mechanically have disqualified themselves from defeating romney for their inability to challenge him. >> john, you made the same argument last hour. >> just not an obscure thing. this is an op-ed three years ago from "usa today." the most idiotic drunk, unpaid intern with a lexus nexus account should have been able to find this. and the fact that apparently there were no drug idiotic interns available on any other campaigns makes you wonder, what were they doing? and it's not like the notion of romneycare was not seen as a vulnerability from the beginning. everybody talks abou...

>> on the far right side of the table. >> adorable. >> dan has been going on and on about iran, but we've been debating mostly this morning mitt romney going out yesterday going oh, no, no, no, i was never for a national mandate, a federal mandate. >> well, what has struck me about this conversation -- and it feels as if it's almost democrats, somebody restigated this and got it back into the bloodstream -- but how is it he's gone through this whole primary without litigating health care? he has never had to do it. perry never did it to him. gingrich never did it to him. santorum only in the l...

Reagan was reagan in 19 779 and 1980 and the extraordinary speech at the convention. mo romney is no reagan. >> no, he's no ronald reagan, but i think the underlying conditions in the country are such that we're guaranteed a close race. and if mitt romney can get out of this unfortunate trap that he's in now of having to fight rick santorum on the right and try to run the campaign he always intended to run, i think he's got a shot. >> what does it say about a candidate, though, who wrote an op-ed in 2009 saying that, please apply what we did in massachusetts nationally on an individual mandate...

Paradigm. >> it's not a fair fight. >> but you don't want to talk about it. you want to talk about iran instead. and that's smart. >> it will probably be one of the defining issues of this election, iran. iran. iran. and i just think we should focus on the issues. we should focus on the issues du jour. >> it's kind of embarrassing, isn't it? he goes out there and says, i never said what i said. >> well -- >> very good. >> mika has an op-ed she wants to focus on. >> i do. it's on romney's piece in "the washington post." >> he doesn't want to talk about the individual mandate. >> he doesn't. >> ...