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Lifetime, or what an actuary would say his life expectancy is, yet still they say hes our greatest deficit hawk, our real fiscal conservative. what happens to fiscal conservatives on the republican side that they think its okay to just do all of this kind of budget cutting, tax cutting, and forget about deficits? >> well, they become obsessed with cutting taxes. i would like to just add that paul ryan voted in favor of the medicare expansion in 2003, an unfunded, new entitlement program. he basi...

To go there, ed. and i dont -- im uncomfortable with giving anybody the kiss of death and saying the conservatives really want this. we have a -- fortunately a deep bench. avenue got senator mike lee of utah. senator marco rubio of florida. senator pat toomey of pennsylvania. former senator from pennsylvania, rick santorum, who -- >> any of those are better than paul ryan? >> bobby jindal of florida -- i think so. yes. i think so. they dont bring the inside washington culture that paul does. pau...

Uncomfortable with giving anybody the kiss of death and saying the conservatives really want this one. we have fortunately a very deep bench. we have senator mike lee of utah, senator marco rubio of florida, senator pat tumi of pennsylvania. former senator from pennsylvania, rick santorum. >> any of those are better than paul ryan? >> bobby jindal of louisiana -- >> any better than paul ryan? >> i think so. they dont bring the inside washington culture that paul does. paul is a good man. hes a c...

>> you are watching cnn breaking news. im colleen mcedwards. we received confirmation a short time ago that the republican white house candidate mitt romney is going to reveal his vice presidential candidate. this is going to happen at a major campaign stop on saturday. in the u.s. state of virginia a few hours from now. a little over eight hours from now. we are expecting that announcement to be made after weeks and weeks of speculation. wolf blitzer is with us in d.c. and john kin...

Our -- an important part of our american history, so were really happy to be here. im chairman of the human services committee for the national governors association. im one of the governors that doesnt believe giving people false promises. the government is deep in debt. alisyn: thats what youre here to talk about. why are you opting out of medicaid for your state. >> first of all i think we need to know the circumstances. the federal government has for the last several years spent more than a ...

Big entitlement program. once they are in, matt there is no taking them out. when erskine bowles -- bowls simpson came out with their report on how to reduce our debt. they wanted to raise the retirement age by a year i think it was from 65 to 66 and you had democrats, some democrats coming out and saying, yeah -- i think it was dick durbin said that sounds reasonable. it was like ar armageddon, what? from 65 to 66 thats crazy talk. you cant get anything passed. >> we laugh at greece they are go...

44% say no. that is pretty teen. what does that tell you? >> what it shows voters understand we have spending problem. they have everything on the table. why should our favorite program have to be trimmed if that one doesnt have to be? well leave this particular entitlement program alone, some other people would say no way. people do want to make cuts. i wrote a book on it, the peoples money. theyre willing to make spending cuts. theyre willing to change the direction of the federal budget. they...

Boom in america. enormous amount of money generation terrible debt. its a nightmare for people today. go ahead. >> the congressional budget office found that the obama stimulus created 3.3 million jobs. >> laura: how many jobs have we lost in that term as well? how many have we lost. >> also lost a lot of job. >> thats the normal churn of the economy. >> the knelt effect has been positive. look what china did. china had a massive stimulus after the crash of 2009. it came roaring out. it did a lo...

Boom in america. enormous amount of money generation terrible debt. its a nightmare for people today. go ahead. >> the congressional budget office found that the obama stimulus created 3.3 million jobs. >> laura: how many jobs have we lost in that term as well? how many have we lost. >> also lost a lot of job. >> thats the normal churn of the economy. >> the knelt effect has been positive. look what china did. china had a massive stimulus after the crash of 2009. it came roaring out. it did a lo...

Folks i talk to, former republican campaign people, they say they think the message mitt romney gives needs to be more specific. he needs to be bolder in the way he is talking about exactly what kind of president he would be. and what he would do with regard to health care, with regard to immigration, with regard to tax reform. what do you think about that? >> well, a couple things. i think certainly you will see the governor roll out additional details as the weeks come in the next few weeks. b...