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If I were President Obama, I'd be very careful about going after Mitt Romney on his flip-flops, where indeed he did change his position on gay rights and on abortion.

It seems they really want to play a hand in this primary.

I think it continues to show how fluid and open the Republican race is.

There are going to be two major factors. One, do Republicans like the -- the person who's going to be the nominee? Do they ideologically agree with that person? But also electability is also a slice of the decision-making pie.

It's just a surprise to me, it looks like they're going to go after as many as they can.

He indicated George Bush violated the Constitution and now Barack Obama, of course, is keeping up with indefinite detention, warrantless wiretaps, secret renditions, keeping Guantanamo open.

He ran against extending the Bush tax cuts, he extended the Bush tax cuts.

Barack Obama has so many more of those on his own which is when he was a senator, he voted against raising the debt limit and then of course he wanted to raise the debt limit.

If I were President Obama, I would be very careful about going after Mitt Romney on his flip-flops, where indeed he did change his position on gay rights and on abortion.

I find it an interesting new development in politics that President Obama's authorized his staff to -- they went after Huntsman, they have gone after Perry, they have gone after Romney.

I never did. I don't really know anybody who did think she would get in. But now that she's not, you know, it's a good thing for the Republican field. It removes what would have been an element of chaos in the Republican Party and this…

There's this sense in Republican politics that almost does no matter who you are, what you do, you will get accused of being a racist.

If he had brought it out himself, it would have been very different.

There’s just this sense in Republican politics that almost doesn’t matter who you are and what you do, you’ll get accused of being a racist. And when it happens, people rally.

If this is bigotry, we all have a lot to fear.

That's why a lot of people stay out of politics, Anderson, because one word and then somebody's accusing you of being a racist.

Herman Cain is resonating because he's got that outsider perspective.

He can't win because people think he can't win.

But clearly there are blocs in this country who vote the way they do.

There are voter blocs in this country that for whatever the reason they decide to vote overwhelmingly one way or another.

I think he's somebody who has a good chance to end up in that third slot and nobody knows what can happen from there.

Washington needs to have fundamental substantive changes in the taxes and the spending.

What's happening in the Republican primary right now is this fascinating dynamic where there still is a search under way for who will be the leader of the Republican Party.

I think the battle for third in the Republican primary is behind Romney and Perry, the two frontrunners, is a terribly important battle because I think it is very possible one of the two frontrunners is going to stumble.