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Districts, in colorado and pennsylvania and a couple of other states. by three to one, people do not think that medicare should be a voucher program. three to one. even in conservative -- these are swing districts. in some cases, where our candidate or congressional candidate is down. so, you know, hes articulate, hes attractive, im sure he says what he thinks, which is always an attracti ivive idea, the problem is what he thinks is way outside the american mainstream in terms of the social comp...

A republican with enough working digits to take orders from paul ryan. but in truth, the ryan plan is dead. deader than ever. it is more dead tonight than it has ever been before. first, senate democrats killed the ryan plan. president obama would have killed it if it ever came to him for his signature, and now mitt romney has killed the possibility of enacting the the ryan plan, even if we have to suffer a romney/ryan administration. but giddy right-wing republicans have not caught on. they don...

Is that he voted for every single thing that blew open the budget deficit under george w. bush. voted for the tax cuts, obviously. then he voted for completely unfunded provision, the expansion of medicare prescription drugs. so he built this deficit, just as much as george w. bush did. >> and he voted for t.a.r.p. which i love to remind people, john boehner wept on the floor of the house, begging republicans to vote for. and he did vote for it. so, yeah, the guy did -- that hes a fiscal conserv...

Never be president. the television age has been harshly unforgiving to losing vice presidential candidates. many of them have run for president after that, but none of them have won. they include henry cabot lodge, william miller, edmund muskie, sergeant shriver, bob dole, walter mondale, geraldine ferraro, lloyd bentsen, dan quayle, jack kemp, joe lieberman, john edwards, and who can forget, sarah palin. even if paul ryan is re-elected to his house seat in november, he will be forced to give up...

Thats what we do. president obama, theyre hopefully rationing medicare. >> mitt romney made a futile trip to florida today, after decisively losing that state on saturday by selecting medicare and social securitys worst enemy as his running mate. the biggest problem romney had in florida today was, as expected, paul ryan. >> well, i can tell you whats radical and extreme is to spend $1 trillion more every year than you take in. im sure there were places that my budget is different than his, but ...

Is based on. what is in the ryan plan and what is left out of the ryan plan. >> so what is in the ryan plan at this point is a somewhat softer, from its initial version, way of moving medicare over to private insurance, or retain the option to be a normal medicare, but you pick from a bunch of private insurers too. >> thats the latest -- thats the thing that -- >> that is the new version. that is ryan 2.0. >> that he worked out with ron wyden. >> exactly. >> but that was never voted on or put in...

>> and so, bruce, the ryan plan was not bring the budget into balance during mitt romneys lifetime, or what an act wactua 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 vo...

Msnbcs steve kornacki and krystal ball. governor dean, a lot of democrats are saying, you know, this is the dream ticket. this is who they wanted on there. i actually dont think its spin. as much as this is a time for spin, and you were going to get a spin reaction, no matter what in these situations, i dont think theyre kidding. i think this is the ticket that the democrats want. >> well, you know, i think you have to be careful of talk like that, because it sounds like youre taking things for ...

Policy things later, alex. right now i just want to enjoy the fair. >> our job is to strengthen and protect medicare. thats what we do. president obama, theyre hopefully rationing medicare. >> mitt romney made a futile trip to florida today, after decisively losing that state on saturday by selecting medicare and social securitys worst enemy as his running mate. the biggest problem romney had in florida today was, as expected, paul ryan. >> well, i can tell you whats radical and extreme is to sp...

Unfunded provision, the expansion of medicare prescription drugs. so he built this deficit, just as much as george w. bush did. >> and he voted for t.a.r.p. which i love to remind people, john boehner wept on the floor of the house, begging republicans to vote for. and he did vote for it. so, yeah, the guy did -- that hes a fiscal conservative is kind of ridiculous when you look at his voting record. but i think paul ryan, because hes a rich kid in part, is the triumph of ideology when you know ...