7:48 am ET

On “Morning Joe,” I key off Charles Krauthammer’s column to talk about a key part of Romney’s challenge:

“If you watch conservative media, read Krauthammer, watch Fox, or talk privately with any Republican politician, it’s hard to find anybody, even some people, as you all know, inside the Romney campaign, who think they’re doing the right thing now, that they’re on track to win despite Governor Romney saying that. The challenge for them is, because of the dynamics is we’ve seen this movie before, they’re getting all this advice in public and in private. They’ve got to do something that shows a change. As I said before, it can’t just be a good debate performance. And as Kelly said, the events have to be bigger. The rhetoric has to be sharper. They’ve got to be driving the day. They didn’t lose the news cycle yesterday but they didn’t win it either. And, right now, they’re basically three plays and out every possession. The President is playing prevent defense. But people like Charles Krauthammer are just frustrated because they don’t see a reaction to being behind and some sort of change. Be angry. Be a fighter. Go big, whatever it is. They have to do something different in the expectation of the conservative press or people are going to starting turning on him.”