* "[H]e cannot beat Obama because his policy is the basis for Obamacare… It's too identical. It's not going to happen."

* "The reason President Obama and some Republicans can get behind socialized medicine is because they share the same core political philosophy about the purpose of government… We cannot preserve liberty for ourselves and our posterity if the choice in next November is between a frugal socialist and an out-of-control socialist."

* "If you want to talk about a poster child for crony capitalism it would be Newt Gingrich as the ultimate consummate influence peddler. But also Mitt Romney is also cut out of the same cloth in that he has been a consummate Washington, D.C. insider."

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M.Bach who said Mitt who is "on the same side as the president when it comes to cap and trade, the $700 billion bailout, illegal immigration, even the payroll tax this week."

Or was it the Bachmann who in Florida said that Romney "has been very inconsistent on his positions. He has been both sides of the abortion issue, on both sides of the issue of same-sex marriage – he in fact signed 189 marriage licenses for same-sex couples for the state of Massachusetts when he was governor."

Compiled from articles by Joe Garafoli and Dennis DiClaudio.