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What does flexibility mean? If he is going to abandon missile defense, he should have that out now, explain it to the country, not wait until after the election.

The president shouldn't criticize people for achievement, we should congratulate people for achievement in this country.

You know, from the very beginning Mitt Romney has had a conservative problem. Here at the end of the Republican primary continues to have a conservative problem yet he won, he won a Republican primary.

The Obama a presidency for three years has taken its toll on President Obama's rating with the American people, with independents.

He hasn't done anything to get over that in the course of his presidency. With unemployment so high, he's actually made it worse.

I think we're heading for an election where both candidates, President Obama and Mitt Romney, have a lot of problems with a lot of sectors of the electorate. They are both weak.

From the very beginning Mitt Romney has had a conservative problem. Here at the end of the Republican primary he continues to have a conservative problem, yet he won -- he won a Republican primary.

They are both weak. Mitt Romney is emerging from this primary, weaker than a lot of Republicans would have liked him to be. But so, too, is president Obama.

You can disagree and still love this country and not be a radical. That is what is so divisive about the language that President Obama and his pollster are now using.

He is weaker and he's running against a weaker president.

You know you can disagree and still love this country and not be a radical. That's what is so divisive about the language that President Obama and his pollster are now using.

I think this one of the worst displays I have ever seen of a president on foreign soil or domestic. What He's essentially saying is give me space because I have to act one way before the election and then after the election I have the…

I think whatever shortcomings conservatives feel about Romney, and they feel many, they are going to unite so strongly against Barack Obama.

If Rick Santorum can't address that, his day will come and it's not here yet. But he's going to have to face that too.

I think they're starting to coalesce. We have actually seen that pattern on a kind of skipping status throughout the primary race.

I think it is personal. It's always a factor when somebody has the gumption to get up and run for office. But I don't know if it's personal that they're opposed to Romney as much as it is they believe so much in themselves and they…

Mitt Romney's fundamental problem is like it was at the beginning. He still has a problem with the base.
