where george scott is watching his troops route, and he says ramel, you magnificent bastard, i read your book. and the romney people, it's like they looked at everything that happened and said here's what we're going to do. >> they prepared. they prepared him. >> what was your take? >> he kind of checked every box except he's not a real conservative box. and that passage alone i think makes him a lot of -- real dedicated conservatives still unreconciled, probably, to the idea of mitt romney as a standard of their cause. >> we already talked about it earlier this morning, though. romney's people may finally be getting it, that you don't sell a guy for what he is not. of course, four years ago they tried to paint him as a right-wing social conservative. that was a flop. last night i felt was one of mitt's better moments and they came straight from the campaign. when they bring up reagan,