morning here in new york city. it is tuesday, march 26th. with us onset, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. former communications director for president george w. bush, former senior adviser for the 2008 mccain presidential campaign, nicole wallace and former senior campaign strategist for that same 2008 campaign. now an msnbc political analyst steve schmidt and combat veteran of the united states army captain wes moore. it s a decidedly game changy feel at this table. haleprin s not even here. he ll be in game change 2020, i predict. the big news of the day, of course, is that mike barnicle s wearing a tie. it s a tie with watermelons on it. thank you. what s the occasion? the occasion is a phone call from my wife last night who told me to stop dressing like someone waiting for a bus to an assisted living facility. wear a tie, tuck in your shirt and act your age.
suffering, and mitt romney s closing argument goes something like this. oh, beautiful forspacious skies come on. no, and he says on the campaign trail, i like patriotic songs and they re talking about what bible verses they read every day. the thing is he is acting like he s got a 50-point lead. it may not work out for him it s william shatner. yeah. priceline are doing lucy in the sky with diamonds. it doesn t work for me. it s interesting, and haleprin and i were talking about this earlier. it s the dynamic of the commercials. if you watch the ads, watch the local news or the football game last night, it s wall-to-wall ads. and the ads are mitt romney talking about barack obama and all the other candidates talking about each other and not talking about mitt romney. so you can read into that what