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Acknowledging the politics and the difficulties of this. im going to talk too chairman of the rnc in a minute about that and some other things. finally, one place where republicans are eager to on the ryan budget is in the home state of wisconsin where republicans hold a senate primary today. the guy who recruited ryan for congress, former congressman mark newman, he is batting former governor tommy thompson, father of welfare reform. businessman eric hovde and assembly speaker jeff fitzgerald o...

We better off today than we were three or four years ago? thats the first question. and thats the first box. the second box that you can only get to after the first one is did the republicans put an articulate, reasonable, intelligent alternative leaders on the ballot to lead this country? that is box that i personally perceive the convention really to hone in on, which is the mitt romney story, who is mitt romney? a good, decent man that built something from nothing, that gave away his fathers ...

Parties bigger stars, chris christie, has been tapped to give the keynote address during the republican convention 13 days away. lets bring back our panel, jamal simmons, bob ehrlich, and shira. its role of government, shrinking government making decisions about government, thats the party the republicans want to be in the 2012. >> also, its taking a very serious tone. ryans plan is very serious. mitt romney wants to show that hes very serious. chris christie, although he has a sense of humor, t...

Medicare you can the cost of the program continues to rise but its at a slower rate. but of course this is medicare, nuance always gets lost here, ask republicans when they were on the business end of this for mullen is 96. it is a fact both sides are counting on. the other piece of baggage, if you will that ryan does bring to the republican ticket is the burden of being a congressional republican, a group thats not very popular these days and if there was any doubt that the president was going ...

Important to the american people. >> shaira, you cover the house and senate fronts. till us what is going on on the inoculation fronts? >> democrat were exside. republicans were paused when it was announced ryan was the pick. house republicans say they want this fight. they want to take this to the mat. i dont know if they are going to feel that way in a month. >> if we were debating about medicare, a long time since i have seen the romney campaign in paid messaging, welfare out today, a role of...

Nominee-to-be, timmy baldwin in the fall. despite denials like this one -- >> the address? >> i have got nothing like that. >> it is now official, my colleague, jamie gangel reported a month ago, new jersey governor chris christie will deliver the keynote address at the republican convention in tampa. the new jersey governor told "usa today" that he "plans to make an emphatic argument on behalf of republican approaches and shared sacrifice to face the nations biggest challenges." apparently al...

The same definition that barack obama used when describing what john mccain wanted to do in 2008. so, if he doesnt like the term "stole" or raid from medicare to pay something else exshouldnt have used it in 2008. so, what paul ryan -- i mean what mitt romney has done, in his plan, he has decided that he is going to put that money back into medicare. this is about the future, chuck, what we are going to do about something both republicans and democrat agree with, if we do nothing, which is what ...

Other goal post, went the other direction. you thought getting saddam hussein was the name of the game. your point, josh? >> there was what happened to in tora bora, the large refocusing of attention on iraq back the end of -- back the end of 2001, but i think the big picture here is that these questions about credit and is this really george w. bushs victory or whatever, these are the kind of things that appeal to already committed political partisans. i think the big political picture here is ...

Iraq, nothing do with this guy. thousands and thousands of people, waste years and years, nothing to do with what happened this week. did you see we did this thing? no, you didnt, you went to the other goal post, went the other direction. you thought getting saddam hussein was the name of the game. your point, josh? >> there was what happened to in tora bora, the large refocusing of attention on iraq back the end of -- back the end of 2001, but i think the big picture here is that these question...

Five years ago had been on the wrong side of a ballot initiative that ended up raising taxes in colorado. its a ballot initiative republicans at the time supported. republicans you wouldnt call moderate in the rest of the country exactly. and because she support td she had this impossible hill to climb. when she started falling apart, even the gaffe that you showed earlier where he kind of made fun of her gender in a way that they have an explanation for but i cant quite figure it out, that cut ...