Fox News' "Fox and Friends"
Mitt Romney, on the "Iran Debate": "Barack is doing his very best, along with the media that supports him, to try and change the discussion, to say 'Oh, this is about talking with the Iranians.' This isn't about talking with the Iranians. We talk to the Iranians now. ... What Barack Obama has said is that he would meet without precondition with Ahmadinejad, the leader of the largest state sponsor of terror in the world, along with Castro, Assad, Kim Jong-Il. It's a naive statement. Hillary Clinton called it for what it was when they were debating on this very issue."
Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes, on Michelle Obama: "She is fair game. She's out campaigning for her husband. She makes political speeches. On the other hand, I think Republicans have to decide whether attacking her in an ad is good politics. Or whether that just allows Barack Obama to say, "Lay off my wife" and to act like she's a victim. ... They don't need an ad, that's over the top; that goes too far; and I think it was a mistake."
Roll Call's Mort Kondracke, on the Democratic women vote: "I don't see what the appeal of John McCain is going to be toward a Democratically-inclined woman."
On who won the "Iran Debate": "McCain so far has won that argument."
MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Clinton campaign chair Terry McAuliffe, on tonight: "No one should declare victory until this nomination is over. ... We have been outspent in Kentucky 5-to-1; [the Obama campaign] has 13 offices [in the state], many more offices, many more staff. So they can't say they didn't play in Kentucky. And we're going to have a double-digit victory tonight. There's a 120 counties -- at a minimum, I think we carry 119 of the 120 counties."
Former Sen. Tom Daschle, an Obama national co-chair, on Clinton's WV and expected KY victories: "We're winning across the board and that is what gives us the confidence that we're going to be very competitive in November. ... The main message tonight is that we've crossed another very important milestone: Getting the majority of pledged delegates is a huge, huge accomplishment, and it all started in Iowa... But tonight is a big night, with regard to the milestone that we set, and that all candidates, set. Winning the majority of pledged delegates is a big deal."
(Sidebar: Co-host Mika Brzezinski, daughter of former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, wasn't very happy with Bret Stephens' Wall Street Journal op-ed today, which mentioned her father. Said Mika: "Bret, you know, I just want to tell you before you lump my father with Jeremiah Wright as a problem, you might want to call me. And then I could tell you about the Jewish leaders we've had over for dinner who love my father; I could tell you about the decades of work my father has done toward peace in the Middle East; I could tell you about my grandfather who helped a lot of Jews escape Germany by reinstating their passports, at his own peril. So, I don't know, that, Bret, you might want to give me a call, so you wouldn't make that connection.")
NBC's "The Today Show"
Geraldine Ferraro, on whether Clinton will blame sexism on losing the primary: "I certainly will. It wasn't so much they were referring to gender, it was the way they attacked her. What happened in this race is every time you raised the issue, you're accused of playing the gender card. Latent sexism has been around in this country for a long time, in this campaign it was patent."
On Obama: "After she mentioned that she'd learned to shoot a gun, he kind of ridiculed her, 'Who does she think she is, Annie Oakley?'...diminishing her.... He did not deal with it head on, it is not OK to be racist, it is just not, it is almost acceptable to be sexist."
Liberal radio host Rachel Maddow: "You can talk about gender and you can reference the fact that she's going to be potentially the first woman presidential nominee without necessarily being sexist."
ABC's "Good Morning America"
Cokie Roberts, on whether Clinton supporters will do battle with their own party: "No I think these women will eventually come around but they are angry. Women voters saying, 'Why are people pushing her, why are they saying sit down and shut up' and there's a lot of resentment about that because a lot of those women have had the same thing happen to them."
"I think the commentary, the columns and certainly the blogosphere was exceptionally sexist, words were used about her that would never be used about a minority. I do think the tone of this campaign has been very upsetting to a lot of women. Women tend to vote Democratic under any circumstances, I think that's likely to come around, but some of them are going to be very uncomfortable and unhappy for a while. [Obama] certainly at times has seemed condescending to Hillary Clinton."
GOP strategist Matthew Dowd, on whether sexism has influenced the race: "In the end she gained more by the fact that she was a woman than anything she lost by it. I think people were prepared to vote for a woman candidate. There was no problem with being a woman 6 or 7 months ago, she raised more money than anybody else. I think the problem was the message that she had and her campaign didn't fit with where reality was today. I think the country was ready for a mom but she kept giving the country a dad."
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(Greg Bobrinskoy contributed to the Morning Roundup.)

