Romney Takes A Beating

Greg Sargent ties to understand Romney's healthcare strategy:

[H]e’s putting himself out there to take a beating on the issue now, in hopes that he can talk it to death and get past it. “That’s the strategic play here,” one GOP operative tells me. “He knows he’s going to get killed on health care. He’d rather get killed today than a month before the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primary.” It’s his only hope.