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I mean, those people, at that picnic table, were giving the candidate a slice of life. they were saying, hey, look, this is what it's like in our district, this is what we want, and he sat there and had no solution, made no commitment. so i ask in the total picture, where is mitt romney gaining? who is starting to jump on the bandwagon for this guy? what am i missing? >> you're not missing much. i mean, let's go back to george w. bush, when he ran in 2000. it was on a platform of using compassionate conservatism to revamp the way the republicans approached education, what ended up being no chi...

Positive message about what the government could do with respect to education reform. the republican party has moved very far away from that, into the point where they no longer see the government as useful for any social function, save defense. and so mitt romney has a real challenge on his hand. because i tend to believe and i think the polling numbers back this up, that people, voters specifically, want to know what a candidate is for. not just what he's against. and mitt romney has to outline exactly what platforms he's for. >> i will make the case that mitt romney doesn't understand their...

Picnic table, were giving the candidate a slice of life. they were saying, hey, look, this is what it's like in our district, this is what we want, and he sat there and had no solution, made no commitment. so i ask in the total picture, where is mitt romney gaining? who is starting to jump on the bandwagon for this guy? what am i missing? >> you're not missing much. i mean, let's go back to george w. bush, when he ran in 2000. it was on a platform of using compassionate conservatism to revamp the way the republicans approached education, what ended up being no child left behind. but it was a p...