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>> i'll gradually raise the retirement age for social security and reduce the rate of benefit growth for tomorrow's higher-income seniors. i'll introduce market competition and consumer choice to medicare while also preserving traditional medicare coverage as an option so that future seniors can get higher quality at lower cost. >> well, chris, there you go. he's not saying anything like what president obama said he's saying. >> i find -- >> it doesn't say the word "voucher" here. >> exactly. exactly. >> it says medicare. >> market competition, right, exactly. >> i don't see "voucher." >> well...

Critique that romney himself has used on the stump was that it cut hundreds of billions of dollars from medicare. that was the one line. $500 million cut from medicare saying to seniors he's coming after you. but of course they want to get rid of medicare. and they need to have their cake and eat it, too. they're in this bizarre situation in which they're trapped between the december graphic base of their party and their ideological commitments. demographically, they can't tell the people that comprise their base that their ox will be gored. so they have to come up with all sorts of ways talki...