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Himself a moderate and progressive but he's having a hard time making that case without putting the ball in his own net. joining us is dave weigel political reporter for slate.com. >> i'm severely happy to be here. >> mr. romney said the word conservative, i think 26 times today. in that one speech, is he covering any of the distance toward silencing his critics? >> not really. the way i heard one very astute person describe it if you look at santorum and romney, imagine them if they weren't running for president, would romney be talking like this if he was nlt running for president, the sense...

How about every senior citizen in the country who receives social security benefits. >> government benefits, we should make sure they are not using the benefits to pay for drugs. >> a universal mandatory drug testing program for people who get social security. call grandma. we reached out to the romney campaign to find out which specific groups of people who receive government benefits he would like to forcibly drug test nationwide. we have, so far, not heard back from the campaign. mr. romney is trying really hard to make conservatives like him, make them forget he used to call himself a mode...

Not so for mr. willard mitt romney, who appears to be feeling mighty confident about his chances in iowa, a state he'd originally all but written off as lost. today the romney campaign announced plans for a four-day marathon bus tour ac+oss the hawkeye state in the final days before the caucuses. the weird thing is romney doesn't appear to be planning to get off the bus much. he has only ten stops planned in four full days of driving. some 770 miles. on wednesday morning, the day after the caucuses, romney is planning to still be in des moines so he can be available for morning show interviews...

So republicans kind of late to the game are trying to remind people of the -- of not even the right-wing views that he has but the old right isolationist, you know, kind of john birch views that he has. and it's taking a while, but israel i think is the way they're getting into it. >> dave weigel, political writer for slate.com and msnbc contributor. thanks so much for joining us tonight. enjoy your stay in beautiful iowa. >> thank you, chris. things are looking darker and darker for whichever candidate is the not mitt romney option of the month. the candidate presumed to have all that criti...

The game are trying to remind people of the -- of not even the right-wing views that he has but the old right isolationist, you know, kind of john birch views that he has. and it's taking a while, but israel i think is the way they're getting into it. >> dave weigel, political writer for slate.com and msnbc contributor. thanks so much for joining us tonight. enjoy your stay in beautiful iowa. >> thank you, chris. things are looking darker and darker for whichever candidate is the not mitt romney option of the month. the candidate presumed to have all that critical tea party support./iñr ma...