From Tuesday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On Tim Pawlenty’s reluctance to attack Romneycare during Monday night’s Republican debate:

I think he missed an opportunity. But it wasn’t because he wasn’t aggressive enough. You can explain that away in a debate by saying you’re a disciple of Reagan’s 11th Commandment that you don’t speak ill of fellow Republicans, particularly in early debates.
But the problem was indecision. He launched “Obamneycare” a day earlier, and once you have done that, the die is cast. It’s not enough to say, as Pawlenty did, ‘I was repeating it.’ If you make a charge that serious, merging the two plans in the mind of the electorate, which for a Republican electorate is a pretty large accusation — if you do it, you have to follow up.
All [Pawlenty] had to do was add one sentence and advance the ball. All he had to say is: The reason they’re linked is the individual mandate. That never came up in the debate as a result of his leaving it out. What he could have said in one sentence is: The individual mandate is so toxic to conservatives [that] they are actually trying to get the courts to throw it out as unconstitutional.
Just one sentence, and that would have advanced it. It’s not terribly hostile.