“It’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We’ve seen throughout the campaign that if you’re willing to say really outrageous things that are accusatory and attacking President Obama that you’re going to jump up in the polls. You know, I’m not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDuA1yuQo6E
Nice try, but he was talking about the republican primary not the general election.