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Absolutely no wiggle room, absolutely no latitude to sort of move to the center, sort of distance himself in the base, do the things that a general election republican candidate really has to do to have a chance against obama. and so he's delayed in doing that. also, in that time, he's going to rack up a paper quote. all sorts of quotes and clips that will be fresh on people's minds and can be recycled in the fall hoopest got a couple more months of that now to look forward to, because of what happened last night. >> tad, i'm not as interested in who's up, who's down in the horse race for poli...

>> in 2010, when i was can deployed to iraq, i had to lie about who i was, because i'm a gay soldier, and i didn't want to lose my job. do you intend to circumvent the progress they've made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military? [ audience boos ] >> when you see cheering death sentences, cheering executions, booing gay soldiers, i mean, the landscape, i keep saying, has changed in american politics from tolerant and growing to where we're going off the deep end. >> yeah, well, i think what's happened here is two forces have sort of merged in the 2012 election. one's very long-term. that...

March. when is it going to get better? i listened to him last night and he didn't sound much better to me. >> yeah, i agree with you, reverend. the truth is, i agree with charles krauthammer who last night said romney is getting weaker and weaker every week. that's the problem. and these process, when you win, and when your party starts to get behind you, you are supposed to get stronger, bigger. romney seems to think winning the nomination is like going out and gathering fruit in a field, putting it in a basket and bringing it to market. you need to inspire people. get them to follow you. the...

>> we decide what that next chapter is going to be. and i'm confident working with folks like you, we can pull together and remind everybody around the world just why it is that the united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. >> joining me now is democratic strategist tad devine and chip saltsman, a republican strategist who was mike huckabee's presidential campaign manager in 2008. great to have both of you with us tonight. let me start with you, chip. should we just name president obama the winner of the gop primary right here and now? >> not so quick. and again it shocked me t...

A stronger, better nominee for having gone through this. but you all enjoy it now. >> the president did get more votes in ohio than the republicans did. i realize that some republicans, the most votes don't count, but he literally got more votes yesterday in ohio. >> not you add up all the candidates. he just got more votes than one of the candidates. all the other votes, more republican votes yesterday than barack obama did. if you want to talk about that, we can go to oklahoma. we lost a delegate in oklahoma. he's not going to get all the delegates in the democratic convention now. >> oh, ok...