moment pay attention when he shakes the etch a etch and saysisay something new you ll have this in your mind. people are talking about the gender gap has exploded over the last six weeks. he s leading in a general election matchup, obama is 20 points ahead of romney and swing states among women. the defense that the romney campaign put forward, and i believe them on this, that doesn t have anything to do with mitt romney. it has to do with the broader republican party and what s happened over the last section weeks. think that they re right it isn t about mitt romney. but that s the problem. the republican party s image now, the same poll i think showed that nationally, there s a 35% favorable rating for the republican party pap that is as low as the republican number has been since the height of the clinton impeachment. if you re the nominee you can t escape that. absolutely right. mitt romney has blown opportunity after opportunity to speak out independently and say, look, my
patriots, questioning whether we should be there, the hawk people, the patriot. i wonder, you know, when we examine the gulf between what s happening overseas and here, you mentioned lyndon johnson did not call upon the national reserve and the guard and in doing so i believe you said took tore the country from the heart of the military and the military from the heart of the country. governor, we ve talked about this before, the gulf between those fighting the war and those at home. it s interesting. one of the interesting part of the book, talked about the abrams doctrine, after lbj, b a abrams recommended we never go to war without using the national reserves because we wanted neighborhood kids to be in in pennsylvania, many guardsmen had been on four tours and yet that doesn t seem to sense in the general population
understand we have to do something about entitlement programs, maybe the long run, the president was attacked by the republicans when he took half a trillion over ten years out of the medicaid. but he did it in a way that didn t hurt beneficiaries. the good thing about cutting the budget and i ve had experience, often you can cut the budget and not hurt the people who are getting the been fits. and i think we can do that. there s got to be intelligent discussions. this is a radical documenting doesn t advance the ball. they should be ashamed of themselves. steve, you shouldn t forget today is a primary day and this is a criticism of paul ryan as one of the men running for president supporting it, mitt romney. what does mitt romney do in mitt romney has studiously avoided saying what he would cut, how he would cut. i believe he said one of the things i found in a short campaign against ted kennedy was