>> tell me if there's some secret parallel universe in which massachusetts is the right place for a republican presidential contender to be in november before an election. >> particularly harvard square, you know. he's really going to the belly of the beast and taking on the elites that would plot against middle america. that's all i can gather up there. i mean, i have to say, listening to you, everything you said i agree with, but i do think the flip-flop on the individual mandate is significant only because it's symbolic of basically his whole career. not -- i mean, before the for-profit stuff, i'm talking about the 20, 30 years he spent in public life as a politician. which was always to be as situational as possible. he could come up there with the most slippery denials and the most fierce attacks. it didn't matter if they contradicted one another. i take a little pride in being the first one this week to point out that the center for health