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And return to coca-cola classic. i understand -- how about zero? anyway -- at the same time, though, while ryan may play the role of the party's chief deficit hawk, is history. specifically his 14-year record in congress paints very different future. very different picture. there was a writing slip. we will ask him about that. jo gentlemen, it issa great to hav you. i was surprised to read in writing he voted for prescription drugs, voted for the wars. voted for the auto bailout. never once for the bridge to nowhere. never saying wait a minute, i'm a fiscal conservative. he said yes, boss, yes...

Powerless. paul ryan has a great campaign consciousness and when it comes to things like medicare reform i agree with him, but when he voted no on the simpson-bowles plan he missed the chance to show he has a governing consciousness, missed the chance to do something good for the country even if it wasn't the best he or i would wish for. >> so what about the fact that paul ryan voted for t.a.r.p., auto bailout, to raise the debt ceiling? he has a history of working well with others and being very pragmatic. in fact, he's known for being maybe personally ideological but politically practical. i...

Women to war. on more than one occasion. i've been to those funerals. i obviously have a lot more experience that barack obama did when he became president. i voted to send people to war. >> he's referring to his vote for the invasion of iraq, which was based on bogus intelligence in relation to nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. does that give him any credibility on foreign affairs? >> of course not, martin. on any number of issues, he doesn't have credibility. this guy's supposedly a deficit hawk. doesn't even balance out for another 20 years. he voted for sequestration, which these de...

Spending. on the revenue side, trying to increase the money, which the ryan plan doesn't touch at all. it goes from 35 first to 25%, 10% in one place. the ryan proposal said this is made up from tax entitlements. another fantasy. 90% of tax entitlements are on mortgage interest, untouchable politically. even from the revenue side, it just doesn't add up. >> i am not -- turns out a company man, and he supports a president as he gets into 2002, the main argument for stimulus. a vp, support his -- if he's a company man, i'm sign. out butt an ayn rand, philosophical, ideological, brain behind the ...

By 40 or 50 points. but another thing that is interesting, 1996, bob dole selecting kemp. it was bob dole who had been an eisenhower style republican, a deficit hawk, never bought into the supply side stuff, reinvenlted himself and embraced supply side economics, he embraced jack kemp's economic philosophy because he needed to do that to energize the republican base and give him something, quote, big to run on in the fall. i saw shades of that in romney was announcement because he had a similar guy who is not trusted by the republican party base, needs to energize them, needs something to defi...