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♪ >> kelly ♪ >> kelly: welcome back. fox news is america's election headquarters. paul ryan taking his place in history as the next republican vice presidential candidate. joining mitt romney for first full day of campaigning. how does he compare to vp candidates of the past. joining us to discuss this nick ragon. how well does this compare to previous vp choices that other presidential candidates have made? >> it certainly a bold choice. i think he galvanizes the wing of the tea party and puts the entitlement issue front and center. romney wanted to change the trajectory of the race. putt...

>> i now want to bring in andrea mitchell. i think we have her back and have her ready. andrea, the longer this sinks in, the third stop of it is taking on the florida issue, the medicare issue head on. >> you know, this is a very gutsy play. this medicare issue, the entitlement issue, the whole question of seniors and the way the obama camp is going to campaign against the ryan choice is going to be confronted immediately and it shows you a number of things, that mitt romney believes that this is the core. that perhaps he believes that the poor economy alone is not going to ensure election, t...

Weighted toward minorities, that minorities have undue benefits in society they're not getting. it appeals to in a down economy, people want to find a villain. there's a part of the base that says it's immigrants, it's blacks. >> what about mitt romney when he says president obama wants an entitlement society? is he pushing basically the same buttons but doing it in a more subtle way? >> i don't see it quite that way. i think the entitlement issue for romney has been this opportunity vision where he is trying to wrap his corporate background, which doesn't necessarily mean entitlement or oppor...

In society they're not getting. it appeals to in a down economy, people want to find a villain. there's a part of the base that says it's immigrants, it's blacks. >> what about mitt romney when he says president obama wants an entitlement society? is he pushing basically the same buttons but doing it in a more subtle way? >> i don't see it quite that way. i think the entitlement issue for romney has been this opportunity vision where he is trying to wrap his corporate background, which doesn't necessarily mean entitlement or opportunity for everyone, but try to take the time at bain and turn i...

we're talking about on wealthy americans. some of the taxes we have talked about before, limiting those itemized deductions that the wealthy take. closing loopholes on hedge fund managers, oil and gas companies, corporate jet owners and also letting the bush era tax cuts for the wealthiest americans expire when they are set to. also a little more than $1 trillion in war savings. of course, we do know that the wars in afghanistan and iraq are already going to be winding down. and that's something that republicans are hitting on. and frequently both sides have used this when they do th...