candidates going forward. joining me now, the political director for mitt romney's election back in 2008, and a former senior adviser to president clinton that worked on every state of the union from 1995 to 2000. thank you for being here, gentlemen. don, do you think that everybody got a chance to use the barbs they have been dying to use this morning? >> you never use them all. i think, you know, you could tell romney had prepared on everything they were going to throw at him. there was a sort of sense of spawn t spontaneousness there, and whether everything was effective is another question. >> so far this election cycle you have yet to endorse anybody. what is your read on mitt romney of 2012 versus then, and why you have yet to endorse him?