Give me a break.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Where’s Mitt Romney? And I’m talking sheer politics here.  Isn’t there a plus- forget Profiles in Courage- isn’t there a plus in showing you’re a man? That you have a guts- or woman- to have the guts to stand up and say, “You know, I want your vote, but not this kind of vote”?

HOWARD FINEMAN: Well, that would require Mitt Romney to run an entirely different campaign from the one he’s run so far. And he’s not going to do it. He is playing to- and has from the beginning of the campaign- played to the kind of nativist base of the Tea Party. And by nativist, I mean people who are, in essence, afraid of the world.

MATTHEWS: Yeah.