Florida's the one state where Mitt Romney really does have an inside track, too, because he has hired a lot of the Jeb Bush people down there.

It's serious. He generally went after him about his positions on issues. But he also dragged him through the mud personally.

Absolutely. When we've got a half-dozen Republican senators now who have spoken out and said he ought to resign. Another half dozen, including Arlen Specter, the top Republican on the judiciary committee, have basically, implicitly, saying…

Yes, Mark -- and Anderson, Mark he was also underscoring something that's really important here. As Rudy Giuliani has taken -- has been more forthright about his positions on abortion and on gay rights and the like, especially abortion.

The president himself would prefer not to have that kind of September timetable.

That's a big shift in position, for the administration to accept legislative timetables.

I think we're clearly moving toward a time of September time.

There is a widespread fear, Anderson, among Republicans, that George W. Bush could turn out to be their Herbert Hoover.

Are we making enough progress on the battlefield? And is the Maliki government in Iraq made enough progress to justify going on?

I think he's -- he's been very isolated.

Republicans are -- clearly do not want to go over the waterfall with this president, if, by September, things haven't cleared up.