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For more bold leadership in a running mate. so this is an important moment for romney, a presidential-level decision. it's about the message that romney wants to send not only about how he would govern, which is important, but about how he wants to lead and what that vision is. so i think this paves the way leading up to the convention speech as well of mitt romney being very specific about what he thinks the turnaround plan is for america and for the american economy. and in paul ryan, he has a top surrogate now who is not only going to draw some real bold distinctions with president obama, b...

Wars and the wars over public employees and what scott walker has done. so wisconsin is a very hot state indeed. paul ryan can try to help mobilize that anger and mobilize it into a successful force for mitt romney if they do it right. it's certainly wide open for that kind of campaign. but the gender divide is a big deal, and, again, i'm not sure how ryan makes that appeal. because they're going to be talking about the issues that have become republican issues as well, especially among suburban women, and younger women, and their issues of choice and reproductive freedom. >> i'm joined by mod...

I think that's among the reasons why ryan was chosen. you know, here was senator obama who had a huge national security gap when he was up against john mccain. that was a big part of why he chose senator biden. that's not the calculation this time around. >> andrea mitchell, when it comes to sort of looking at this ticket and matching up ryan and biden, what do you see there? and is the ryan-washington experience, the fact that all of his experience is washington, whether as a staffer, is it all going to be a handicap to him? >> with some audiences, sure it will be, but you can't be more washi...

From over and they're going to have to deal with that. back to luke's point because it's important. if you think about how ryan complements romney, i think luke's exactly right. he's a natural campaigner, a very easy politician, paul ryan is. can he go out there and energize the republican crowd? yes, he can do that. can he do it in working-class sections of the country just like joe biden's doing for president obama? yes, he can do that. he can be a huge fund-raiser because he'll energize conservatives with the fiscal message he's got. if you think about all those areas, including the convent...

Clinton called him all kinds of -- just demonized what he was talking about in terms of social security insolvency and he referred to clinton as a panda bear and that doesn't work. that was the end of songas's campaign. democratic primaries have shown how treacherous florida can be when anyone tries to speak very tough talk about medicare and the budget. >> go ahead, david. >> let's remember, too, the phrase change medicare as we know it. we've been through the health care debate and how easy it was to define something that was complex in a really negative way. democrats have had a lot of expe...