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That was today. quote, away from the cameras and with all the usual assurances that people aren't being quoted by name, there's an unmistakable consensus among republican operatives in washington. romney has taken a risk with ryan that has only a modest chance of going right and a huge chance of going horribly wrong. the most common reactions -- hair on fire to anger that romney ceded in the election. bob, your thoughts. you've dealt with this guy, romney, before. this wouldn't be the best argument for his business with the first big decision he had to make, he picks a guy that's got nails com...

>> let me even the tables here, bob. back when we saw bill clinton run against george sr., we knew there were problems in bill clinton's personal life. they knew about it. people said we will give him a break anyway. we need to try something new. we knew the fact reagan was sort of an erratic far right winger, but they still said we needed a change in '92 and in another race. people wanted a change. in '92 and another race. people wanted a change. in '80. so even if you have questions about romney, big questions and concerns about ryan, how does that shift away from the main concern of the cou...

>> no, i think bob is right. have to agree with him on this point. the focus originally as you set up was about this referendum. we want this to be a referendum on the last four years. we want this to be on the spending. the debt. the solyndras of the world. let's talk about what the administration has failed to do, create jobs. mum one priority. now, it is bold. the boldness of this choice is it shifts the debate from a referendum to a choice election. where you get to have a philosophical discussion and choice. >> who wanted that? >> what direction you were going to go. chris, that's good qu...

Priority on slashing those things. and so he's a reformer. but you know, there are plenty of cases, you're absolutely right, when he was given a choice, the deficit was not his first choice. i don't think the deficit is his overriding priority. he's a supply cider and he's cast a bunch of votes that kind of made sense for a congressional republican making his way through the system, but it's not the case that the deficit has been his first priority throughout his career. >> seems like he only started worrying about paying for things under obama. let me ask you about this thing, i think he repr...

Romney ceded in the election. bob, your thoughts. you've dealt with this guy, romney, before. this wouldn't be the best argument for his business with the first big decision he had to make, he picks a guy that's got nails coming out of his head politically. >> i think he waited too long and then got pushed by the right for this choice. i've talked to some of these republican pros. ? are friends of mine. they read the the polls. they know what's going to happen. one who doesn't like obama at all said to me on sunday, short of economic armageddon, it's going to be hard for obama to loose. lose. ...